• priapus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I’ve genuinely never seen a single person recommend NixOS to a new user, unless they already had advanced technical knowledge

      • priapus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        9 months ago

        You could just look at my profile to see that I’m not. I’m also not new to Linux communities in general. Doesn’t change that I’ve never seen someone recommend NixOS to a complete beginner. I have (rarely) seen Arch recommended, but those recommendations will generally be downvoted and have many replies disagreeing. Linux Mint is by far the distro I see most often recommended, followed by Fedora.

  • PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de
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    9 months ago

    I mean isn’t it accepted that NixOS is a terrible pick for a beginner, especially a non-technical one? I feel like even the Nix community doesn’t recommend the distro to complete beginners.

  • Integrate777@discuss.online
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    9 months ago

    NixOS consist of a bunch of options that you define using the nix programming language. Since it’s a programming language, everything is well defined and organised into single place.

    Technically, someone could build a GUI configuration editor with sane defaults and clearly organised pages of settings, which generates a configuration for you. This could immediately change NixOS from the most tedious to a relatively easy to use distro.