Y'know what, never mind, I'm starting to figure #
NixOS out. I got a little hint at why it's kind of cool, and why you'd want to use flakes at all, and now I'm thinking maybe I can dumb it down for myself, and therefore dumb it down for everyone else as well, like I did for Garuda Linux years ago. If there's anything this highly philosophical and opinionated distro needs, it's to be made accessible as a daily driver for goobers.
I'm gonna spend my weekend fussing with this thing and trying to make a silly tutorial for people who want the cool things NixOS has to offer —
- having your whole system be a single file that you can just copy and paste onto another system
- being able to tell your system "install the latest programs as of last week instead of today"
- rolling everything back with a single command because you broke something
- just having a massive-ass repo that makes the AUR look like dogshit
— so unless I come across a dealbreaker, hit me up with questions that you, as a non-Nix #
Linux user might want to hear the answer from someone who doesn't give a shit about declaratives vs imperatives or anyone's take on the GNU philosophy or whatever. More like "how do I install Steam" or "can I transfer over my KDE config files" and I'll see if I can learn so I can explain it like you're five.
