For once I feel a little out of touch after I took a bit of a break from following the news to focus on studying, and suddenly everyone is talking about immutable distributions. What are they exactly? What are the benefits and the disadvantages of immutable systems?

    • flashgnash@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Honestly every time I mention NixOS I get someone telling me it’s not a beginner friendly distro

      Provided you get to understand the config file which only took a day of fiddling it’s so much easier to use than mutable distros

      I add something to my package list and it just works, and nothing else breaks and even if I do manage to screw up my entire system so badly that I can’t boot it anymore I just boot the last working configuration and undo my changes

      I believe people have even built UIs around the config to make it more user friendly

      https://github.com/nix-gui/nix-gui https://github.com/vlinkz/nix-software-center