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What could your distro learn from another distro?
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this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2024
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Seconded. NixOS's documentation has consistently been the worst I've read, always forcing me to go to the source code to try and understand what in the world is happening. It makes quick changes to new things nigh impossible. I had to resort to taking notes when I understood things about nix in order to retain the knowledge or at least link to where I could easily regain it.
The nixos wiki was marginally better and https://nixlang.wiki/ has been better. However the latter is less known so has less content. All in all, nix documentation is still bad.
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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0NixOS has the best concept and even pioneered it, but whether its implementation and documentation is perfect is a topic for debate.
However, it's been quite long since I had to fiddle with my config and as such, the downsides don't really affect one on a daily basis. In fact, I recently reinstalled my machine to change the root filesystem and it was an absolute breeze. If not for secure boot, it would have been absolutely trivial, and with secure boot it was easy and convenient.
As such, I consider the pains an investment into system that runs much better down the road. Though I'd love it if these pains were reduced.
I'm assuming "AMD" is a typo?
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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0Yes! Apologies, didn't proofread what my phone produced from swiping
It would've been welcome and surprising news! 😄
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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0I'll definitely check that out, thanks