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[–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I suggest you check Silverblue + Ansible (or CoreOS/IoT for server stuff).

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    while i think that ansible is really cool, it's not the same as Nix.

    correct me if i'm wrong, but afaik Ansible just modifies the current state of the System with a declarative configuration.

    Nix reverts your system back to install and then applies the configuration. The result is that in Nix if i remove something from the configuration.nix it is as if it never existed, whereas on Ansible it stays unless i manually run a task to uninstall it.

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