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I’d been hearing a lot about NixOS so I did a VM install. It wanted me to setup my own partitions manually without even giving preset sane defaults like I was back in 1994 installing Slackware.

Nope. My OS is a tool, not a lifestyle.

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46 points

There is a Gnome/KDE installer too now ;)

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20 points

This is the opposite of me. I always get nervous when I don’t have precise control over how the disk layout looks. I explicitly decided for the non-graphical installer when I first downloaded NixOS

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11 points

My OS is also a tool!

Those jerk OSs and their bullying!

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10 points

Encryption? Also you’re assuming there’s only one block device…

assuming the person before did not just mean partitioning, but also all other storage-related tasks

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9 points

I mean, if we’re talking sane you shouldn’t need more than one partition.

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8 points

I need to compile my kernel… by hand with tools from beige-age computing.

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1 point

So? If that’s too much for you, use Chrome OS

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7 points

Sounds like you haven’t done it in a while. It has calamares installer now.

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7 points

Slackware still does that in 2024.

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You can even still launch Slackware from DOS!

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5 points

How long ago did you try? You should try again, I did not have this experience setting up with the graphical installer a few weeks ago.

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it wanted me to setup my own partitions manually

You’ve obviously never used nix, it’s GUI installer can auto configure just fine.

When your OS AND apps are declared and stateful a lot of risk and complexity is removed. Configuring is just a bad experience with poor usability and worse documentation.

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Where do you draw the line though between tool and lifestyle? At setting up partitions (which is a trivial thing I would not mind at all)?

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