Well let’s see if it is worth it or if I go back to debian.

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    It’s a whole different story when it’s just a package manager and not a distro. I made this comment to help people get started.

    I’d only use nixos if there was a specific reason. Otherwise it’s too much trouble for practically no benefits.

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      The benefit would be: changing stuff doesn’t break it. And if it does you can easily roll back. Keeping the config file sets up a new installation like the old one without trouble. Somehow I don’t think you really need it if you aren’t distro hopping but I need it way too much.

      Currently the trade offs are too big I think. Programs don’t work because of the atomic behaviour.

      And the learning curve is steep even for Linux veterans.

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          Mhh fedora.

          I liked it and I liked nobara.

          However I liked debian more somehow.

          But I could consider going back for his.

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            My heart is always with Debian, but Bazzite is a surprisingly useable immutable OS. I would suggest using it for your core suite then use Distrobox w/ Debian for any apps outside of that. It’s so snappy!

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            I second Bazzite, it’s really good. And more promising than the Nix monstrosity

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        You don’t need nixos for that. The only thing you lose is rolling back system configuration, unless you use system-manager.

        Unless you’re doing scientific computing, or being a sysadmin for a company, you don’t actually need nixos. It’s at that scale that system reproducibility becomes important enough to offset the downsides. For everyone else, home-manager and a list of packages are more than enough.

        The learning curve is not that bad, it’s just that the resources are a pile of burning garbage.

        Also, idk what you’re doing with VLC, but ~/.config should still work AFAIK.

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          I did install vlc. I started vlc. I noticed completely wrong subtitle size. I went to settings and tried to change some and save. Vlc throws an error it can’t save the file, permission error.

          I install vlc with flatpak. Same subtitle error. I go to the settings, I don’t get an error but the settings don’t change anything.

          Also almost anything i do in the plasma settings doesn’t get saved.

          And that shit should only be saved in the home folder.

          I think I have to clean my home folder.

          But then I have to do the setup of plasma again.

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            Damn, that sucks.

            I gave up on nixos long before getting to that point. On Debian I use apt for to install a few user packages like alacritty because of Nix issues. Everything else is pretty much the same linux experience.

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              The concept is a great idea.

              The documentation is rare and the atomic behaviour seems to break my whole Linux work flow.

              Which is a good thing I guess. But I can’t Google “how to do x on nixos” and get a reasonable answer. I get nothing. Or some weird forums where I don’t know what they are talking about.

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              Ok can confirm. 90% of my problems went away on a new home directory.

              However I still don’t know how to iscsi.