From 5bad12334d9032005b3468b3f523688964c31d50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Natasha Moongrave Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:49:10 +0100 Subject: Moved the blog and all of its adjacent things from ./blog to src/Pages/blog --- src/Pages/blog/posts/2026-03-05-why-i-use-nixos.md | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/Pages/blog/posts/2026-03-05-why-i-use-nixos.md (limited to 'src/Pages/blog/posts/2026-03-05-why-i-use-nixos.md') diff --git a/src/Pages/blog/posts/2026-03-05-why-i-use-nixos.md b/src/Pages/blog/posts/2026-03-05-why-i-use-nixos.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3b70f79 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/Pages/blog/posts/2026-03-05-why-i-use-nixos.md @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +# Why do I use NixOS? +I've been daily driving Linux for aboutt 3 maybe 4 years. In that time I've done my fair share of distro hopping. Starting out with [Fedora](https://fedoraproject.org/), then switching to [Arch](archlinux.org) where I've stayed for a pretty long time. Most of my linux journey actually. + +It was lightweight, it was fast and it was exactly what I wanted because I made it. It even forced me to learn a lot about GNU/Linux and operating systems in general. I loved it. But I was prone to tinkering. Slowly, the system became more and more bloated with tiny little leftovers from my experiments which, as they piled up led to dependency hell and pretty bad instability. + +Another thing that I missed, was reproducibility. If I reinstall my OS, or switch computers anything. I'd have to spend hours reconfiguring everything. I tried writing ash scripts to help with this but that never worked out. + +But recently I've heard of NixOS. Described as the *secret final boss of Linux* with a learning curve steeper than Arch. But the things it promised. All of the benefits of the DIY of Arch without any of the downsides. Perfect reproducibility, no dependency hell (NixOS can have multiple versions of the same package at the same time.) stability rivaling that of Debian. Automatic generations and easy rollbacks when something does break. It was truly the promised land. + +I'll write about my configuration and how I actually use NixOS next time since its a giant thing that took me a year of dailying to figure out. -- cgit v1.2.3