Hi everyone!

I saw that NixOS is getting popularity recently. I really have no idea why and how this OS works. Can you guys help me understanding all of this ?

Thanks !

  • @[email protected]
    2•2 years ago

    All I year about from the linux community is NixOS and btrfs, neither of which I have any interest in. It almost feels like someone with an agenda is promoting these two with how prevelant they are.

    • @[email protected]
      13•2 years ago

      I like using btrfs with Arch because of the snapshots. If an update breaks something I can just boot into a snapshot from grub keep using my PC and solve the problem later. It’s very useful… yes… very… you should try it… come… try btrfs… it’s warm and cozy… INSTALL IT!

      • @[email protected]
        2•2 years ago

        I have tried btrfs in the past and when it goes wrong you are utterly shafted. You can’t even mount it as a read only file system, it will just lock you out entirely. And the support isn’t great, I ended up finding something that had a disclaimer along the lines of “only run this if you really know what you’re doing”, but obviously I didn’t as the documentation didn’t tell me enough to know. So the only people who could possibly know are the developers of the file system themselves. Anyway, I was 2 days in to trying to recover my data by this point so I gave it a go, nothing to lose - it refused to do anything. Great.

        So in summary I’m not going to try it again.

        • @[email protected]
          2•1 year ago

          can confirm, I’ve recently had my btrfs partition on NixOS go permanently read-only because it ran out of metadata space (which you can’t extend without write access, even though btrfs does reserve 0.5GB of metadata space) so I’ve switched to bcachefs

    • @HarriPotero
      5•2 years ago

      Well, I’ve been sold on sold on btrfs for over a decade. If you’re telling me NixOS is just as great I just might have to give it a try.

      • @Chobbes
        1•2 years ago

        I love both, but if I had to give up one… I’d give up btrfs over NixOS in a heart beat. Put me on a FAT32 NixOS system if you must…