I am playing around with Fedora Silverblue and openSUSE Aeon and I really like the painless updates.
Still, my daily driver for some years now is Debian, and I have a decent setup via Ansible - everything just works for me.
My question is mostly to long term Linux users, which use Linux in a professional context and jumped from a distribution like Fedora, Ubuntu, openSUSE or Debian to NixOS, Silverblue, Aeon etc.
What is your experience? How did your workflows change on your immutable Linux distribution? Did you try immutable and went back to a more traditional distribution - why? How long are you running the immutable distribution and what issues and perks did you run into?
This isnt’t the case for NixOS. I use VsCode and all I need to do is open it by typing “codium .” after direnv loads the flake file which points to all of my dependencies. I don’t use flatpak and I’m able to provision ALL of the tooling in a way that lives with the project rather than on my machine, needing to be manually updated.
When you say “with the project”… you mean, you load up a typescript project, so you can use npm, etc. but you cannot use golang toolings within that same VScode window, and vice versa?
His config loads npm and stuff when he is in the project directory. So anywhere outside of that directory, its like its not installed.
This. It allows me to be incredibly flexible and granular about exactly which software is installed in which environment. I could dream up the most obsolete (or vaporware or anything in between) tech stack imaginable and bind that to a flake and lock it then not have to worry about the rest of my system being contaminated with those unusual dependencies. It’s like what Docker dev environments and devcontainers are attempting to do but 1000x more elegant and reproducible.
