How is this low-effort zero-value non-article even on the first page of HN in the first place?
Friends/bots upvotes. It's like the only way to get your post on first page nowadays.
NixOS is more complicated than you think but OpenCode fixed it
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Re: NixOS is more complicated than you think but OpenCode fixed it
#12> Ultra lightweight Doesn't nixos use a lot more diskspace than arch, because of its store?
It seems like the "lightweight" they seem to be concerned with is RAM, not disc. I can't really comment on disc space usage on my own NixOS system, though my "thin client" skin does fit nicely on an old Chromebook, I think that guy has 32GB of storage.
OTOH I have an ex Chromebook with 16G of storage that I meant to run NixOS until I discovered the initial install needed almost half the disk so I figured it was doomed the moment I tried to update while also having some space used in home. It runs Alpine now, very comfortably.
Re: NixOS is more complicated than you think but OpenCode fixed it
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
It seems like the "lightweight" they seem to be concerned with is RAM, not disc. I can't really comment on disc space usage on my own NixOS system, though my "thin client" skin does fit nicely on an old Chromebook, I think that guy has 32GB of storage.
I’ll just say as nix Darwin user the default vanilla install does not garbage collect well and every 2 months or so I have to hack around nuking shit in my system to free up space. Maybe NixOS itself is better managed and it’s an idiosyncrasy of nix-Darwin. Maybe not
I like the sound of nix but the disk space issue is a deal breaker for me - my sdd is always full.
I run my main arch system in under 6GB. That's enough for qemu and wine and a few other bits which is all I need - the rest is in VMs
Would like to switch it to nix though..
Re: NixOS is more complicated than you think but OpenCode fixed it
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’ll just say as nix Darwin user the default vanilla install does not garbage collect well and every 2 months or so I have to hack around nuking shit in my system to free up space. Maybe NixOS itself is better managed and it’s an idiosyncrasy of nix-Darwin. Maybe not
I like the sound of nix but the disk space issue is a deal breaker for me - my sdd is always full. I run my main arch system in under 6GB. That's enough for qemu and wine and a few other bits which is all I need - the rest is in VMs Would like to switch it to nix though..
I think, like everything with Nix, if you recite the correct incantation for configuration you can avoid this issue. But it’s not default behavior
Re: NixOS is more complicated than you think but OpenCode fixed it
#15How is this low-effort zero-value non-article even on the first page of HN in the first place?
Did you see the 26 minute long video?