Well let’s see if it is worth it or if I go back to debian.

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    7 months ago

    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.

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      I did install vlc. I started vlc. I noticed completely wrong subtitle size. I went to settings and tried to change some and save. Vlc throws an error it can’t save the file, permission error.

      I install vlc with flatpak. Same subtitle error. I go to the settings, I don’t get an error but the settings don’t change anything.

      Also almost anything i do in the plasma settings doesn’t get saved.

      And that shit should only be saved in the home folder.

      I think I have to clean my home folder.

      But then I have to do the setup of plasma again.

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        7 months ago

        Damn, that sucks.

        I gave up on nixos long before getting to that point. On Debian I use apt for to install a few user packages like alacritty because of Nix issues. Everything else is pretty much the same linux experience.

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          7 months ago

          The concept is a great idea.

          The documentation is rare and the atomic behaviour seems to break my whole Linux work flow.

          Which is a good thing I guess. But I can’t Google “how to do x on nixos” and get a reasonable answer. I get nothing. Or some weird forums where I don’t know what they are talking about.

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          7 months ago

          Ok can confirm. 90% of my problems went away on a new home directory.

          However I still don’t know how to iscsi.