Im wondering if there are any other immutable gamine distros besides bazzite. in particular im wondering if immutables use any other base. I swear I thought suse was doing custome type things long ago.

  • cecilkorik@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I absolutely love the idea of NixOS and have tried it a few times, but I just can’t wrap my head around the language and syntax. It hurts my brain. Which is sad for me, because it seems like magic until I run into a wall and it starts doing unexpected things and I go into the slippery slope of messy confusing code trying to patch things until it works the way I want it to and I soon have a unmaintainable spaghetti configuration I can no longer understand at all and I never escape the doomspiral.

    • hanke@feddit.nuEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Yeah, it took me a good while to be comfortable. And I am still more or less a noob.

      I’d say I don’t fully understand the syntax properly, but I get around. The docs are great if you haven’t checked them.

      I have also been spitballing with AI to get input on how to attack new problems in there and I find that really helpful. If you are strongly anti-ai there are some good community chats on Discord, Matrix and elsewhere where people have been really kind and helpful as well.

      My recommendation is:

      • Start a new system using a single flake
      • Add what you need, when you need it
      • When it starts feeling unmaintainable, take a step back, stop adding new stuff and figure out how you can refactor your system so that you are back in control

      You have to think it is fun for it to be worth it really, but you seem sold on the concept, so I think you’ll get there!