Hi everyone, someone can explain, in simple words, why considering to switch on NixOs over other distro? And the use case? I think would help a lot of people (including me) to understand it better :D

  • rah
    2·
    1 year ago

    Want to move it to a different PC? No problem, copy the files in /home and /var/lib and simply install NixOS using the configuration you already have on the new PC.

    How/can one separate some changes from others? I don’t want my server to be identical to my laptop. How does one install a package which won’t be installed on a different machine at a later time?

    • dai@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      You are able to have different configurations spun up from the one file by using machine names. My main machine is pretty barebones with minimal applications, but my laptop is even more minimal.

      I can’t move away from Proxmox right now for my servers but the option is there if I want to spin up some containers using similar Configs and such.

    • chayleaf@lemmy.ml
      2·
      1 year ago

      Simply use two different configurations? The more interesting question is how to share stuff between configs.

      Each piece of config is a NixOS module. You can include some NixOS modules in one system’s config, but not the other.

    • zalphoid@lemmy.studioEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I split certain things, for example desktop related tools/applications are in one configuration and thus my headless systems do not import that config into their base config.