NixOS. Declarative system management is just so unbelievably simple and reliable that I couldn’t ever see myself going back to a traditional Linux system.

I’m very pleased to discover this. I’ve been using this online editor for a while—good to have a local alternative.

My final straw was getting a new MacBook Air (I was at that point fine with how UNIX-y macOS was) and realizing I couldn’t dock the laptop to more than one external monitor without some weird hacky third-party software fix. Why, you ask? Well not at all because the laptop technically couldn’t do it, but because Apple said it can’t, because they want to overcharge you on a Pro.

I promptly returned the MacBook, bought a Framework on eBay, and learned NixOS.

10/10, I haven’t looked back since.

Anyone using this? I can’t tell what problems it actually solves for the end user.

The most satisfying part of the NixOS process is deploying to bare metal and watching it work exactly as you intend it to

Niflheim might one day be the name of an actual Nix-based distro…

Not to add fuel to the flame by asking, but how’s it been on Guix? I’ve heard Guix does a lot of things better, but also that there’s far less packages and it’s harder on modern hardware.

Fascinating! How’s it compare to youtube-tui? I’m really interested in starting to use a program like this… the YouTube website is so unbearably slow.

How have I never heard of this! This is awesome!

Always nice to see Helix :)

Switching to Nix could certainly simplify a lot of things. I wouldn't be surprised if they went that direction soon.

Can vouch for KDE Connect—especially powerful on android.