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[–] 79 points 2 years ago (10 children)

I'd been hearing a lot about NixOS so I did a VM install. It wanted me to setup my own partitions manually without even giving preset sane defaults like I was back in 1994 installing Slackware.

Nope. My OS is a tool, not a lifestyle.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago

    This is the opposite of me. I always get nervous when I don't have precise control over how the disk layout looks. I explicitly decided for the non-graphical installer when I first downloaded NixOS

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The obvious sane default is 1 partition covering the whole disk, + EFI system partition. What's there to offer...

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    it wanted me to setup my own partitions manually

    You've obviously never used nix, it's GUI installer can auto configure just fine.

    When your OS AND apps are declared and stateful a lot of risk and complexity is removed. Configuring is just a bad experience with poor usability and worse documentation.

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