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What exactly is the use case of NixOS? (piefed.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by daggermoon@piefed.world to c/linuxquestions@lemmy.zip

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I'm an Arch user (CachyOS now) and I've gotten used to doing things a certain way. Anyway, I have another computer with a fresh Windows 11 install. After literally 5 hours of troubleshooting, I still could not get the fuckass wi-fi drivers installed. People who say Windows is easy clearly never had to install it. I eventually said fuck it and decided to install NixOS. I'm used to Arch based distros so I wanted to try something new. I'm very confused about how it works and what it's intended use case is. I spent an hour trying to figure out how to install micro permanently. I did RTFM but It didn't really help. I guess I'm hoping someone can share some words of encouragement and/or convince and/or bully me into sticking with this weird ass distro.

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[–] sam@r1b.it 1 points 1 week ago

Maybe one day corporate stuff. You just need to write one file to copy-paste and identical system to dozens of your employees' issued devices