Why I love NixOS is really about the Nix package manager, reproducibility, and sane system management in the LLM coding era.
  • TehPers@beehaw.orgEnglish
    18·
    6 months ago

    I recently built a voice-to-text agent in Rust

    Agent…? Uh, okay, let’s just use that word for everything now.

    I did not have the Rust toolchain installed on my system. I simply told the coding agent that I use Nix, and it figured out how to pull in the entire Rust toolchain through Nix, compile the project inside an isolated shell and produce a working binary.

    Sorry, where is the part where you built something?

    Anyway, NixOS gets a lot of praise. Maybe it’s something I should try if Manjaro doesn’t survive its current drama (though it seems like they have a path forward now).

    • lmr0x61@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      6 months ago

      Yeah, that paragraph is where I stopped reading lol

      Blog post aside, NixOS is fantastic. Once you get the Nix DSL down, it makes everything so smooth once you know how to configure your system. The learning curve for me came not from the packages, but learning how to set up system/program configurations using configuration.nix, instead of the standard config files. But once you get that down, you can rebuild essentially the exact same system from a single file. I use it for my worker nodes on my server cluster, and it makes setup of new nodes a dream. Definitely recommend.

    • Lucy :3@feddit.org
      3·
      6 months ago

      When installing a package is too hard, one simply should not use a PC. Maybe the nursing home would be a better place.