Justin

using Linux desktop isn’t easier than using windows

(X) Doubt

Yeah one nice thing about nixos is that their package search website is really good. You can also search for config options with examples.

I mean the Arch wiki mostly works on NixOS too. The problem with NixOS documentation is that there aren’t many examples for the Nix language itself.

The nice thing is that NixOS will keep your setup and all your tweaks if you ever need to reinstall. It’s designed to solve that exact problem.

One way of switching over would be to carry over your homedir and just starting with migrating packages and config as a first step.

Meanwhile, Ubuntu is switching to uutils

I have to actively tell my grandfather who wanted to switch to Fedora to stop trying to use the command line lol, it’s easier to remember the GUI. CLI isn’t some big looming threat like it was in the 2010’s.

Build scripts are often written in bash, yes, but I would say that you should find a utility program, or write your own utility in python, if you’re breaking out sed. It’s very hard to read code like this, no matter the team size.

There’s probably only 100-300 usages of sed in the entire nixpkgs repo, with over 100,000 packages.

I definitely agree Linux is easier to maintain and build code on than Windows, but yeah abusing sed is not really an ideal use case 😅

who in their right mind would try to do this on Linux

Nix

I’m running nixos unstable. I did get some panics while hibernating with one kernel version, but otherwise it’s been super stable.

Enabling threadedirqs (real-time feature) on the kernel command line does make the kernel panic on boot though.

nah windows will not let you disable things like windows defender and telemetry, even if you have windows enterprise edition. It might be possible to delete it some of the bloatware, but it’ll just reinstall itself in an update.

The document does not claim Linus cannot override maintainers anymore. That can happen for anything, as you very well know. But I think everyone agrees that it shouldn’t come to that – at least I hope so.

https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/CANiq72myjaA3Yyw_yyJ+uvUrZQcSLY_jNp65iKH8Y5xGY5tXPQ@mail.gmail.com/

1st reply to the email from Miguel Ojeda. Same thread as Greg KH’s reply.

I think Larabel was a bit too quick to publish on this one. It was later clarified in the thread that Linus would not merge rust against maintainers’ will.

Unraid is very unstable and hard to repair when it breaks

I’ve met sysadmins who say that unironically 😅

Yup, same here. being able to skip all the networking and DNS hassle and have it automated for you is so nice.

Having databases fully managed with cnpg is AMAZING

I just have renovate set to auto update my argocd, so everything just runs itself with zero issues. Only the occasional stateful container that has breaking changes in a minor version.

If something OOMs or crashes, it all just self heals, I never need to worry about it. I don’t have any HPAs (nor cluster scaling obv), though I do have some HA stuff set up just to reduce restart times and help keep the databases happy.

The main issue with Kubernetes is that a lot of self-hosted software makes bad design decisions that actively make kubernetes harder, eg sqlite instead of postgres and secrets stored in large config files. The other big issue is that documentation only supports docker compose and not kubernetes 90% of the time so you have to know how to write yaml and read documentation.

Moving my hass from a statefulset to kubevirt sounds tempting. Did you have better reliability/ergonomics? I have been looking into moving my Hass automation to NodeRed, so that I can GitOps it all, since NodeRed supports git syncing.

Docker got popular because of dockerfiles. It really sucks at service management though which is why people run Kubernetes in production, not Docker.

Kubernetes is designed to improve reliability

if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. I’ve worked plenty of private sector jobs where they use COBOL somewhere in the company

NixOS is the better source-based distro. Everything can compile from source, but you can also use the binary cache if you don’t want to.