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NixOS. And be really annoying about declarative software environments
But whatever you do, mark off late November through Early December and late May through early June, those are updates, and you only get limited time move to the next version before you start having compatibility issues with the previous release.
God I fucking love Nix tho.
It's called Stockholm syndrome
LOL, probably.
I was Linux on the desktop at work for over a decade, changed jobs, they forced me to go Windows or Mac. Mac infuriated me with it's half Linux half locked down BS, so I went windows, WSL came out and I was relatively pacified, kept Windows for a couple more years after I changed jobs again. Finally said WTF and tried Debian, bookworm just worked, steam, laptop, dual video cards, Got the hardest windows only software running in wine, worked around the mandatory no stuff. I ran it for 6 months, got bored. Looked at immutable. Watched someone on peertube doing a live sesh working on a mastodon or lemmy cluster in NixOS, fell down a rabbit hole.
Now, by default I have nothing installed I don't need immediately, I have nix shells for yt-dlp, qemu, video editing, I need something it gets installed just for that shell and then it's gone. Almost any package I could want is available. I clone my home directory and a couple config files, I can move my entire setup box to box. configs are stored in git.
But then, updates are scary. A lot of my packages are in the hands of people who didn't create them. Probably 90% of the stuff I run is just a .deb file unpacked by someone who wants to run the app in Nix and decided to share the work. One of my core modules got stale after an update last week and it too me most of a night to figure out why it took me 10 minutes to boot.
It's complicated enough I never feel like I understand it all. It breaks just often enough that I'm forced to learn more about it. It has a few super-powers that make me not want to swap it out with something else.