Principal Skinner on Immutable Distros - eviltoast

Am I out of touch?

No, it’s the forward-thinking generation of software engineers that want elegant, reliable, declarative systems that are wrong.

    • demesisx@infosec.pubOPEnglish
      191·
      3 months ago

      GUIX for one.

      GUIX is to NixOS what Gentoo or Manjaro are to Arch.

      I’ll probably try it someday when I get bored enough of systemd.

      • zagaberoo@beehaw.org
        4·
        3 months ago

        Gentoo or Manjaro are to Arch? What do you mean? Those two are very different from each other especially in their relationships to Arch.

        • demesisx@infosec.pubOPEnglish
          91·
          3 months ago

          Duly noted. I DO NOT use Arch, btw. ;)

          What I meant to try and say is that GUIX is like NixOS for Chad programmers.

    • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
      5·
      3 months ago

      GUIX is a good example.

      Don’t say ansible. It’s barely declarative.

      True, but it uses a common language in its Playbooks, which is a significant advantage. I’d like nix if I didn’t need to use nix the language. It’s great concept and the portability is awesome.