Linux youtubers are about to get a deluge of new content
“can you game on [Country]nix?”
“How usable is [Country]nix?”
etc
great choice. it’ll make the sysadmins jobs a lot easier that’s for sure. will be very easy to roll out too.
you had me at the first part
Same governments are selling out their people’s data by moving the EU to the right, giving AI cunts our info for ttaining.
The sysadmins in the respective government must have a such a rush of serotonine being able to finally dit h windows
I’m sure most of them want to but get blocked by red tape and politics
Not really tbh they are windows admins …
Plenty of sysadmims are multidisciplinary. A big part of the gig is fixing whatever, so unless the job is pretty silo’d you will tend to get experience with both.
I have been thinking that NixOS might be a cool base for governments or whatever to build their ‘distro’ on top. Because you just need a config file, where it says you want 1 KDE, please, with
wobblyWindows.enable = trueand then you’re golden.It’s immutable as well, which you typically want in such organizations…
I’ve also thought this for basically any large scale deployment… Load up the config file and let it rip. Easily scale as many laptops / thin clients as you need.
MicroOS would be good also.
They have a tool to help build the config file prior to installing, and a tool to build the iso.
Hmm, that’s just the initial configuration, though, right? If you want to roll out updates to the config, you would presumably use Salt or similar (like they have a config field in that generator).
That’s also an improvement for this use-case over your average Linux distro, especially because MicroOS is immutable as well, but NixOS is still a big step further into this direction.
I guess, what I really wanted to say in my previous comment is that NixOS isn’t just immutable, but rather also declarative.
You define your system config and then it makes it so the system matches that configuration, whether it’s a new system or a previously installed system.
So, it’s not just a script where you need to describe how to apply or unapply a change, but rather the entire OS declared in a config file (and a ton of defaults).The big difference is that you know the state of a system, when you apply a configuration. It is written into your configuration file.
Whereas with a distro which is merely immutable, even if you completely prohibit users from making changes, you still have the problem that someone might’ve been on vacation while your script contained a line to e.g. modify some config file.
If you update that line before they return, then you better hope your new modification logic can deal with whatever is on their system.With a declarative system, this cannot happen, because the contents of that specific config file would be defined in your NixOS configuration file. No matter when you do the sync, the up-to-date contents will be put in there correctly.
(And yes, I know, if you get your scripts right, you can achieve similar results. The point is that you don’t need to.)
Yes it’s a sensible choice. There is also supposed macos and windows subsystem compatibility but I’m not sure what that adds in practice. Anyone have experience with this in NixOS?
I just know that the macOS thingamabob is called nix-darwin. A colleague, who presumably also just watched a video about it, said that it does work, but it needs a bit of extra setup.
Well, and presumably, the ecosystem is smaller, so you probably won’t find as many pre-made modules as for Linux programs.
Great time to move off Windows.
Great news! Increasing independence from American tech seems like a great idea to me. Hopefully they also invest in the open source side of things so everyone gets to benefit from this move.
Well, they kind of have to.
I wish AUNZ would go Linux. I hate that we bow to Microslop!
Huh, never read the two together in an acronym like that
Next distro war is WW3 confirmed
(btw. isn’t France already developing an Ubuntu based distro? Do they hate Snaps too?)
France has an Ubuntu fork called Gendbuntu which is used by their police force. Much like the Netherlands they are now also working on a NixOS-based distribution for the wider government
maybe the French government went to Canonical for consultation and Canonical fucked up, as always.
