[kwlug-disc] From Slackware to which distro?

[Doug Moen]

I read a review of the pros and cons of NixOS. It's great for a server, but pure hell if you are doing C/C++ development (eg, building github projects with cmake files) or downloading and running app images. Or so the blogger said. Plus high learning curve.

It would be different if Nix were as popular as Debian, and if the github projects I download all had Nix expressions for building. What I really want is to use the same tech everybody else uses, so it's well supported and there's a good knowledge base. Which means I should use Windows, except I want software that "respects my freedom", so then it's Linux but not Ubuntu.

Doug

On Wed, Jun 1, 2022, at 9:51 AM, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 01, 2022 at 04:46:22AM -0400, Doug Moen wrote:
>> On Tue, May 31, 2022, at 4:12 PM, Raul Suarez via kwlug-disc wrote:
>> 
>> I want to point out that I have some very specific requirements that other people may not share. The system level features I want include:
>>  * A high level UI for snapshot and restore of the root partition, so I can recover from disaster after a system update or package install goes badly. Like my problematic install of MATE on Fedora. This is built in to Mint and OpenSUSE, but not Fedora or Manjaro.
>
>>  * ZFS support (for an external array, not ZFS on root). Mint has this in the default install. OpenSUSE has a package that is not in the default repos, but the OpenZFS project endorses the package, and people on the internet report using it without issue. Fedora has a package that the OpenZFS project says "should not be used under any circumstance". Note that ZFS is for my server machine, not my laptop, and I won't use a rolling release distro on my server for stability/reliability reasons. I could use Mint or OpenSUSE Leap.
>
> Have you considered NixOS? My impression is that it is bad for the "It
> Just Works (tm)" experience, but its strength is being able to recover
> from failed upgrades cleanly. Somebody I know swears by it, and has
> switched his production systems away from Debian and to NixOS
> precisely because he needs to upgrade and rollback without hassle.
>
> - Paul
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