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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Why use immutable Linux ? And which one ? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What are the pros and cons for desktops ? EDIT : Thanks all. I'll try Silverblue, bazzite and more.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Been using nixos for a couple months now. It's nice and I really enjoy having all my configuration in one place and able to be version controlled. The down side being installing and configuring things take a bit more time to read how nix does it. I have it on a laptop that I've been playing with and removed it and put rocky for something else but I am 100% confident I can go right back to the way i had it.

So far the cons I'm seeing is installing vscode plugins are a little annoying and setting up to do python development on existing projects not very easy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

nix flake init -t templates#python sets up a nice environment using poetry.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Python development shouldn’t be that hard I think. You can just drop a shell.nix that imports your pyproject.toml and then you can run nix develop and have all your dependencies installed seamlessly with poetry2nix.

I’m using neovim so I can’t really help you with vscode, sorry.

Have you tried Erasing your darlings with NixOS?