The benefit would be: changing stuff doesn’t break it. And if it does you can easily roll back.
Keeping the config file sets up a new installation like the old one without trouble. Somehow I don’t think you really need it if you aren’t distro hopping but I need it way too much.
Currently the trade offs are too big I think. Programs don’t work because of the atomic behaviour.
And the learning curve is steep even for Linux veterans.
You don’t need nixos for that. The only thing you lose is rolling back system configuration, unless you use system-manager.
Unless you’re doing scientific computing, or being a sysadmin for a company, you don’t actually need nixos. It’s at that scale that system reproducibility becomes important enough to offset the downsides. For everyone else, home-manager and a list of packages are more than enough.
The learning curve is not that bad, it’s just that the resources are a pile of burning garbage.
Also, idk what you’re doing with VLC, but ~/.config should still work AFAIK.
Have you used it with Debian? Much better that way IMO
Gonna try that next. Probably. Nixos isn’t really working if I don’t know how to do stuff.
For example I can’t change settings in vlc because it is read only.
It’s a whole different story when it’s just a package manager and not a distro. I made this comment to help people get started.
I’d only use nixos if there was a specific reason. Otherwise it’s too much trouble for practically no benefits.
The benefit would be: changing stuff doesn’t break it. And if it does you can easily roll back. Keeping the config file sets up a new installation like the old one without trouble. Somehow I don’t think you really need it if you aren’t distro hopping but I need it way too much.
Currently the trade offs are too big I think. Programs don’t work because of the atomic behaviour.
And the learning curve is steep even for Linux veterans.
You don’t need nixos for that. The only thing you lose is rolling back system configuration, unless you use system-manager.
Unless you’re doing scientific computing, or being a sysadmin for a company, you don’t actually need nixos. It’s at that scale that system reproducibility becomes important enough to offset the downsides. For everyone else, home-manager and a list of packages are more than enough.
The learning curve is not that bad, it’s just that the resources are a pile of burning garbage.
Also, idk what you’re doing with VLC, but ~/.config should still work AFAIK.