I like NixOS

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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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  • Born in 2004, I barely used the internet as a kid. Most my video games were off of CDs, and I occasionally got to use my dad’s Steam account. In like 4th grade I played some Wizards101, League of Legends, and some flash games, and started watching Minecraft youtubers. Besides that I mostly used the internet to download Minecraft mods. I kinda eased into the internet that way so I never really was surprised at having so much accessible to me.

    I didn’t get on social media until I got on Reddit in high school. I tried Tumblr a bit but didn’t like it since it was too different. I still don’t use Twitter or anything, just Reddit and Lemmy and occasionally Pinterest.
















  • I’ve been using NixOS for two years, and I’m not as hyped as I used to be. I’m a little nostalgic for my first days trying out Mint and Manjaro, and I’d like to try out Kinoite and maybe Guix on another drive, but I don’t think I could ever switch to using those permanently.

    Setting dotfiles through home manager is nice, especially since they’re synced between my pc and laptop, and if I ever need to reinstall or set up a new device it’s all there. It doesn’t seem that cool after getting used to it, but just editing plain config files seems pretty messy and unorganized after using home manager. Flakes are pretty cool and being able to nix run any program without installing it is nice.

    My impermanence setup is a little annoying though, and since I use Syncthing to sync my KDE dotfiles between devices that can bug out sometimes, but it seems nicer and more organized than not having impermanence so I don’t think I could go back there either.