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[-] steersman2484@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah, it is a lot of initial work, but once you got your shell.nix or flake.nix in place it is really nice, to not have to deal with different dependencies and versions in different projects.

But you can also archive the same on any distro with the nix package manager.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 26 points 5 months ago

except i want my computer to function for my needs without "a lot of initial work"

[-] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 11 points 5 months ago

It's an investment for the next time you install on a new dev machine. After install, I will literally run a single command to return to the exact state of my dev environment.

[-] nortio@feddit.it 8 points 5 months ago

Sure but how often do you need to actually change your machine?

[-] 0x4E4F@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago

Me personally, a lot. I work on 4 different rigs (inlcuding latops) and yes, for me, it does save time.

[-] NostraDavid@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago

Probably not often, but as a Debian user, it's a PITA to get back to where I was before I fucked up my system. Nix(OS) sounds like a future investment to me, just in case I ever fuck up and need to get back to where I was ASAP. Been there once already and it was NOT fun.

That was from a professional standpoint BTW, privately I'm still a dirty Windows pleb, because that's what I'm most familiar with.

PS: I'm already using a dotfiles repo, which already saves me a ton of time in settings things up.