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minus-squarecannedtuna@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 days agoThe ethos of NixOS is if a program runs on one computer using Nix it will run on any computer running Nix.
minus-squaremakefile@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 days agoOkay but like that’s almost every other distro as of 2021
minus-squareTwilightKiddy@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 days agoThe party trick of NixOS is declaring your whole system in a huge config file. If you want someone to get the same system, you just throw your config at them and it works*.
Can you explain the nixOS part?
The ethos of NixOS is if a program runs on one computer using Nix it will run on any computer running Nix.
Okay but like that’s almost every other distro as of 2021
The party trick of NixOS is declaring your whole system in a huge config file. If you want someone to get the same system, you just throw your config at them and it works*.