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Principal Skinner on Immutable Distros (infosec.pub)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by demesisx@infosec.pub to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
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Am I out of touch?

No, it's the forward-thinking generation of software engineers that want elegant, reliable, declarative systems that are wrong.

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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 33 points 3 months ago (3 children)

How, tho?

Seriously, how do you even get started? It's like the tutorials are all, "This is a basic 'Hello World' module/flake. Now, you are a master." I would love to figure it out, but I need a little more hand holding.

[–] demesisx@infosec.pub 20 points 3 months ago

I HIGHLY recommend forking a nix-config that uses flakes, home-manager, and whatever window manager you prefer. Since Nix is so versatile (and the documentation of flakes and home-manager are BAD), I found it absolutely crucial to reuse a well-architected config and slowly modify it in a VM to sketch out my config until it was stable enough to try on a real machine.

[–] jlow@beehaw.org 13 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I've had the same experience multiple times, people have been raving about it but I can't find a tutorial that is as noob-friendly as I'd need it.