Alt text: A line plot with 2 axis (confidence vs competence) referencing the Dunning-Kruger effect with various distro logos placed at different points on the line. Starts with mint/ubuntu near (0,0) and progressing through multiple distros to end up with opensuse/fedora at what it calls “the plateau of sustainability”

  • cally [he/they]@pawb.socialEnglish
    541·
    20 days ago

    i’m on NixOS

    …and I’ve been on NixOS for mount stupid, valley of despair and, perhaps, the plateau of sustainability

    • talou@jlai.lu
      17·
      20 days ago

      Agreed, NixOS is all states in once all along. Don’t look inside the box to maintain incertitude.

    • redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      31·
      20 days ago

      Truely don’t understand how this one became popular. But I’m sure it will fade like Crunchbang or a dozen others before it.

      • unrealMinotaur@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        5 days ago

        NixOS came out in 2003, crunchbang came out in 2008. As someone who swapped to NixOS after reaching the “plateau of stability” and realizing I needed more power, while the distro is a clusterfuck that shouldn’t be as popular as it is. It has some very clear and defined use cases, so I don’t see it dying any time soon.

      • spikespaz@programming.dev
        3·
        20 days ago

        It’s the most unique distro to date, and has all the strengths the others. Because it’s not a tool for building distros, and NixOS is just the posterboy.

          • spikespaz@programming.dev
            2·
            19 days ago

            Silver blue is just an OSTree implementation. NixOS is deterministic. Think of it as, the distributable for silverblue is an immutable system image. Whereas, the distributable for Nix(OS) is a blueprint for anything, including immutable system images, or something more customized. You’re also exempt from the downsides of OSTree.