• madeline@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 months ago

    genuinely what is so special about nixos??? i know literally nothing about it and i currently have a spare chromebook i could test it on right now

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      5 months ago

      It has an interesting approach in terms of organizing disk layout. That solves a lot of problems (dependency hell, immutability, reproducibility, automatic changes etc) and seems to be overall better, but it’s a huge paradigm shift and step learning curve so many people get discouraged.