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US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS-based software ecosystem
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Ansible is a thing though. It is also a more complete, mature and easily substitutable solution vs pinning your hopes on a single distro.
Programmers like NixOS because they are programmers.
Ansible is US-owned. Even though it's open source, Redhat, a US company, is the one that controls its lifecycle.
NixOS is based out of the EU.
Fun fact, Nix, Nixpkg and NixOS have their roots in the Netherlands. For example, Nixpkg was even described in a PhD thesis at Utrecht University.
Aren't Nix repos hosted on GitHub which is owned by MacroSlop?
i used ansible some years ago and i'm using nixos currently and you can not compare those two.
i was not fluent in ansible and i'm not fluent in nixos. yes you have to leave your comfort zone for nixos, but your get so so much more.
the jinja templates in yaml feel like a big hack if you used nixos.
would really be interesting to hear someone talk who is comfortable to use both of them.
I'm honestly amazed ansible still exists. I used it regularly like 10 years ago and never liked it. I use NixOS for all my servers and package all my code as nix flakes, and I agree that they're barely comparable.
NixOS is a kinda frustrating desktop distro to me though. Sometimes you just wanna type
makeI use Gentoo for desktop, never understood the need for nix there.
It's close, but Ansible is often not deterministic.