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[–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

I love nixos, it's been my daily driver for the last 3 years for work and home.

A more accurate metaphor would be:

  • When modding the car, with a arch, Debian of most other distros you actually mod the car. If you want to change the seats you physically install new seats.
  • With nixos you don't intervene directly on the car, you change the blueprint of the car and let the robot reassemble the car according to the blueprint.
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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah that’s true, it’s more like changing the car builds a new car every time in case you want to go back to an old one (or eventually prune/gc and say good bye to the old cars lol)

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    More like the car changes parts around the user space. You still have the driver and baggage (files) intact inside the car.

    Alternatively, you build a new car and teleport all of the inside of the car there, teleport the car to wherever the old one was and keep going from there.

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