My system configuration had a problem with a particular package sometime between now and the 16th, but using git I was able to track down precisely which source was causing the problem and then with a little googling I was able to find which app was broken and update the rest of the way. This is a power that #Nixos has given me that I never had all those years running Ubuntu.
I know it's possible to instruct that particular app to pull from the older source, but I'm not there yet.
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A friend keeps hyping about nixos. But Iām an Apple user now and too comfortapple. Any value running servers or docker containers on nixos?
I know a lot of Apple users get quite a bit out of using home-manager with Darwin so you can start using that to start getting some benefits without going all the way.
I played around with using nix to manage some docker images a while back, but I don't think I was using them right and went back to alpine. There's a way to use nix to build the images. I've looked into it, but haven't gone down that road yet.
Haven't had the opportunity to set up servers with nix, but I absoltely will the next server I set up.
I was an apple person once... Then one day my MacBook was really REALLY slow and when I went to dig why, I found out that MacOS was using TWO FUCKING whole CPUs ONLY to render the window manager...
Next day I bought the desktop below and never looked back.
It's 5 years already! šš
(A caveat... This entire setup had the same cost as a MacBook and is way more powerful )
Now, re: NixOS on servers... I wouldn't do it... Manage a fairly heterogeneous server park where consolidation will just not happen.
Due to that I tend to always go Debian or Red hat based as all my automation is tuned for this two distros paradigms.
But it definitely sounds interesting! =)
