The product of a chat with @QuazarOmega@lemy.lol

  • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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    9 months ago

    I’m going to have to come back to Nix/NixOS in a bit. I tried setting it up as a baremetal OS but clearly didn’t have sufficient understanding of the Nix DSL to get it to do what I want. Following the instructions in the manual led to a functional system missing the network stack. I’ll probably wait until the official docs catch up as it appears that they are quite a bit behind. That and I’m not sure how I feel about a DSL for package management. I’d much rather use JSON or YAML, or even INI or TOML. Maybe if I were a LISP or Haskell guy.

    So, after a few hours sunk there, I switched to Fedora Silverblue, which worked out of the box and added Incus via rpm-os-tree. Just need to get the UI setup and I can start moving through my distro list.