"YOU KNOW WHY I CLICK LATER? BECAUSE THERE'S NO OPTION TO CLICK NEVER! I'D LIKE TO CLICK NEVER! I NEVER WANT TO DOWNLOAD THESE STUPID BULLSHIT FUCKING UPDATES EVER AGAIN!"

anything proprietary

home-manager. a divine tool for ~~maniacs~~ Nix users that lets you do declarative dotfile management

I want "realistic" UI, like macOS 10, not the flat sh*t we see nowadays.

"Whomst the fuck?" (C) Wizord, 2023

Playing osu but with chests instead of circles

C-

NixOS is, if you can cope with a custom "config" language that you will have to use everywhere, your perfect fit.

Updates? Just switch to nixpkgs unstable

No x11? Just don't install it

Encryption? Just use the config options

LTS? If you really want to, just stick to the fixed release channels and have a month of support after next release.

Hardware? Enormous hardware support range, although I don't recommend you run it on a Raspberry pi 3b. (it almost exploded)

Preference towards larger projects? Ooooh yeah its a... gigantic project. And also not to mention nixpkgs is H U G E

Louis never disappoints

dudes with 1 bit pointers: ಠ_ಠ

because it is

Yes. Absolutely.

For me it shines in the replicability. For example recently (at the time of writing this) I have gone to a different place without the ability to take my pc with me (its not a laptop duh). I prepared my config and pushed it to the git repo. With me I only brought a usb drive with all my ssh keys and another one with the headless NixOS installation environment. I set it up, had to do some UEFI smashing and hardware adjusting but that's just hardware specific. In like 30 minutes I had my full setup, my hyprland, my doom emacs, and most of that time it was downloading packages.(not to say cache.nixos.org is slow but the internet there was dogsh...)

Would I recommend? If you are ready to do some table smashing and if you are experienced enough with Linux and the nitty gritty of it, then HECK YEAH. You have to know that NixOS is not for beginners. It is a bulletproof distro for ultra power users that, if you use correctly could lead to a impenetrably stable system, which you could reproduce on ANY other machine. And also rollbacks are awesome.

Conclusion? NixOS is awesome!