What if the perfect distro were the configs we made along the way?
Only to drop them all in favor of nixos. However you mostly can translate your config into configuration.nix
That’s my goal. When I tried NixOS 3 years ago I didn’t had time and there was a lack of documentation to make a .nix for missing packages. Community was… something not very welcoming. I will try again during college break.
Well documentation is still not great. But I can deal with it.
The first step is to really understand how nix works and how nix-shell -p works.
Then probably know that autoPatchelfHook exists
And sth. You have to watch out for if you install sth. With a daemon or a service you need to enable it additionally to the installation.
So for example for open-iscsi you need to enable the service.open-iscsi = enable so it can work.
Flakes are still a nogo for me. I don’t understand them and I don’t want to deal with them until I get the rest into my head.
But like…yeah, that’s kinda it IMO. None of the distros come out of the box absolutely perfect for me and my use case, but Debian is close enough, well-documented enough, and flexible enough to be configured into a “perfect distro”. I haven’t really had a reason to distro-hop on any of the systems I installed Debian on.
There’s no single perfect distro.
Some are stable, some run light. Some are fully featured. Some are bleeding edge.
And some are for plotting world domination.
But there’s only one for saving the world.
Wrong, my distro is the perfect distro, everyone else is just adding to fragmentation
Arch can be whatever you want it to be 😇 you just have to form it yourself.
99% of distro hoppers quit before finding the perfect distro
My experience tends to be
For me it’s become all about convenience. Is Ctrl-Alt-T preconfigured to open a terminal? Can I move it around with Super-[arrows]? Are all the drivers and codecs I need in the standard repos? No (or little enough) bloatware? Then I’ve found a distro for me. I don’t care about anything else anymore.
