Remember the days when everyone and their pet iguana was raving about Arch Linux? You couldn't escape the ever-so-subtle "I use Arch BTW" remarks in every Linux forum. Well, move over, Arch, because NixOS is here to steal your thunder! Nowadays, it seems that you can't browse YouTube or read a blog without stumbling upon someone extolling the virtues of NixOS and how it is the epitome of computing perfection. But hey, who needs critical analysis when we can jump on the hype train and declare NixOS as the new Arch? Because that's exactly what's going on. NixOS has now become the self-proclaimed prodigy that's poised to dethrone Arch Linux as the holy grail of Linux distributions. The time is calling, my friends! It's time for you – the seasoned Linux enthusiast – to dust off your keyboard warrior capes and embark on a new crusade. So, grab your Tux plushie (or, your pitchforks if you belong to the world of devils) and let's embark on an adventure through the enigmatic world of NixOS (and let the memes commence)!
  • Felix@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’ve now been daily driving Arch for ~1 year or so. I mean, it works. I’ve only re-installed it once when I bought a new nvme drive. But except that. I’ve kinda gotten used to everything. Nix seems so cool. Everything in a config file, like what? 80k packages in the repo? But Arch is just so comfy, I know how pacman works, everything is up and running perfectly. I’ve installed CachyOS’s x86-64-v3 repos for max performance. My system just works.

    • erwan@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      See, that’s the feeling Ubuntu/Fedora users had when hearing how Arch would solve all their inexistant problems.

      The bottom line is, there are a lot of Linux distros, most of them are great, so if you’re happy with your choice then so be it!

      • Felix@feddit.deEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Yeah. You just have to get used to knowing that there is always going to be a distro which will be “better” than you current one.

    • Brejela the Purple@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Funnily enough, when I upgraded from a SATA SSD to an NVME, I didn’t have to reinstall anything. Instead I just moved the LVM LVs to the NVME and rewrote the boot config. Just booted up from the existing installation without having to install anything.
      Of course, tune2fs reports the right age for the filesystem:

      # tune2fs -l /dev/mapper/VolGroupSSD-ssdvol | grep created
Filesystem created:       Thu Jun 16 10:33:49 2022 << This used to be the root fs, inside the SATA SSD
# tune2fs -l /dev/mapper/VolGroupSAT-satvol | grep created
Filesystem created:       Mon Nov 14 14:13:49 2022 << When I bought the NVME and created a new VG just for the SATA drive