I use NixOS btw

Hi! I’m Alex, a.k.a. Ultra. I use NixOS btw. Gen Z, Romanian.

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    1. My config is in a single github repo for all of my machines and my user.

    2. It’s really tightly integrated and just works with the nix package manager, which has a huge repo and builds packages reproducibly, so theoretically what would work on my machine would also work on yours. Also, with nix you can run software without installing it, you can have multiple versions of the same library, and there are way more benefits just from this package manager that I can’t list here.

    3. You can iteratively test your config, apply it on a live system and roll it back. You can also use git to roll back to an older version while keeping the actual source files.

    4. There’s no dependency hell / leftover packages after uninstalling something - what you declare in your config is what is installed, and if an app has unspecified dependencies it won’t build. I guess this would also be a part of #2

    And there are probably other benefits I can’t remember.








  • It’s like lemmy + mastodon - you can microbilor and boost posts and comments. But after using it for a while, I switched back to lemmy because:

    • it has no API AFAICT the API is read-only, so there aren’t any apps (the dev is making one but I don’t think it’s finished and can’t compile it)
    • it has some performance issues
    • it doesn’t work sometimes
    • the UI looks worse
    • there are way less instances of it
    • it’s written in php instead of rust