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    [–] Klaymore@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    NixOS is so incredibly stable it's crazy. Even if my entire computer implodes I can just download my couple config files off github and get exactly the same system on a different computer.

    [–] dmrzl@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Well, you still need to backup and restore your persistent drive, but that's trivial too.

    [–] Klaymore@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, I use Impermanence and all my important things and dotfiles are synced between my devices. Other stuff is just games and stuff I can reinstall anytime.

    [–] copylefty@lemmy.fosshost.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I'm going to try Nix as my desktop OS. The only thing stopping me up until now is I like running the same OS that I run on servers (Debian). Do you think there's a good use case for Nix on servers?

    [–] Klaymore@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Yeah NixOS is great for servers, since you're able to configure everything through the NixOS configs. Like if you want nginx you just add services.nginx.enable = true and similarly set the different virtualHosts and everything. That way your nginx configuration is stored in the same place as your system configuration, which can all be backed up with Git, and you can see everything running on your system and their configuration by just looking through your NixOS config.

    [–] copylefty@lemmy.fosshost.com 2 points 1 year ago

    That's very interesting. I use ansible to maintain configuring on my Debian services. I guess there'd be no need when running Nix