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"Always configuring" isn't what Arch requires. It requires you to be tolerant of every so often dealing with a bug or two. Currently, the Arch-packaged version of Waybar has a regression which prints fractional seconds when using
%Tor%Sspecifiers. A tad annoying, and I could fix it by switching towaybar-git, where it's been patched. But that hasn't hit my threshold of annoyance, as I bounce between Sway and KDE.The grub issue was a bigger deal, and while I knew how to resolve it (liveboot →
lsblkandfdisk -lgot me all the info I needed, thencryptsetup,mount -o subvol=@,arch-chroot,grub-install) the EOS blog had a nice guide.But the reason why I chose it? Firewalld and Pipewire by default, customizable welcome app, and pretty simple otherwise.
NixOS will probably fully convert me in a year or two, but I've greatly enjoyed my time on Endeavour.
What's the advantages of NixOS? Is it really private?