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and the documentation is being actively improved to hopefully someday meet the high standards of Arch
It has a LONG way to go
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This is the one thing stopping from swapping to Nix. I would love to have a drop in file for my mini PC, but right now staying in the arch ecosystem is just easier
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Yeah, I think the network effect is a big part of it. People start seeing nix configs being used for projects, and nixos config examples are getting easier to find.
IOG?
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It’s finally ready for mass adoption, IMO
No way. It’s still a specialist OS. There’s no way I’m putting this into the hands of a linux newbie or even the average linux user. There config still doesn’t have a UI, the flakes vs non-flakes debate is still in full swing (nixpkgs doesn’t have flakes), the doc is far, far, far from user friendly, writing a nix package is still not easy, and so much more.
Nix for sure was (and probably is) ahead of its time, but the UX is amongst the worst I’ve experienced - and I’ve written
initandupstartservices and configured my network withipconfigbefore networkmanager was stable.Mass adoption doesn’t necessarily mean Linux newbie. NixOS seems to be targeting the DevOps crowd with its stability/immutability – that is, people who would be comfortable building their system from a config file that doesn’t have a UI. They’re already basically doing that with other tools.
I don’t know a single devops who uses it. Not a single person in the tech companies I’ve been in had even heard of it. When I presented it to resolve problems it could resolve, one response was “but I watched a video that said it’s hard to learn” (one from distrotube, I think) and another was “it doesn’t work on mac, does it?” and that was that.
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“it doesn’t work on mac, does it?”
How is this person even in devops lol
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They actually believe AI scraping lemmy will follow the link to the license, understand it, and except their comment.
I don’t think they believe that; I think they either (a) think a human lawyer would understand it during the class-action suit after the the AI scrapes it anyway, or (b) more likely, they’re doing it to make a point as a matter of principle.
Either seems pretty fucking reasonable, to be honest!
It’s just noise. Assuming US jurisdiction where many of the AI companies are based; either AI scraping is fair use, in which case the license is meaningless, or AI scraping is not fair use, in which case they already have the copyright.
or AI scraping is not fair use, in which case they already have the copyright.
What? How would an AI company have copyright over @onlinepersona@programming.dev’s comment? That makes no sense at all.
It’s the other way around, onlinepersona already has the copyright. Asserting that the copyright is non-commercial changes nothing. The default is non-commercial. The default is nobody can use it. They are applying a more permissive copyright than the default.
Lol, are you unhappy somebody disagrees with you? Quite childish.
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He must watch Rick and Morty.
a lot of the art and science of teaching is popping up?
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I have never seen pedagogy used to mean teaching materials.
Well, now you have.
Hi, teacher here: pedagogy is ‘the method and practice of teaching’, and that practice involves teaching materials.
still seems wierd to me. materials do not sound like practice at all and I guess method as they are written often but like I feel like pencils are materials. just feels wierd based on the definition.
Speculating here, but similar tools like Ansible, Terraform an other IAC tools have only come up relatively recently.
Having this built-in is appealing to many people.
Containerization / declarative configuration management / reproducible builds / immutable distros are hot right now because people have for a long time been sick and tired of their shit breaking when they upgrade, and are starting to realize that encapsulating changes in atomic transactions and keeping track of them better is a better way of doing things.
In other words, NixOS is riding the wave generated by the popularization of stuff like Docker, Ansible, CI/CD, etc.
Containers are now ubiquitous and people wanted their systems to be similarly easy? Silverblue/similar immutable OSes fizzled out and people started trying NixOS? Probably many factors, to be honest.
Personally, I needed a new OS for my gaming computer, and I decided to experiment with NixOS after having tried Silverblue in the past.
Don’t forget that silverblue in the launch was a pain in the ass, because of applications not adopting portals and flatpak, so you needed to layer a lot of things, that wouldn’t work because it uses /usr (that’s read only) or scripts that do the same thing, since them a lot of things got modernized
Same reason Roblox is only now popular after 20 years: because it was complete shit for most of the time it has existed.
Correction: Roblox used to be good, and is now shit.
Roblox is just an engine, there are tons of shit games and many good ones. The Monetization however is quite shit
I installed it when it finally had an installer and I’ve been using it for a couple of years. I think that was the final thing to push it into mainstream (of Linux distros, widely known in narrow circles so to speak)
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Growth have been fairly organic . number of contributors grew by 28 percent this year. there are a lot of users so given that a percent of them will do some form of advocacy that will probably lead to more users and there will be a relatively large amount of people saying they adopted it.
I’d like to say it’s because I have such a big influence on the Linux Community, but I honestly don’t know
coz of drama
