Well let’s see if it is worth it or if I go back to debian.
The benefit would be: changing stuff doesn’t break it. And if it does you can easily roll back. Keeping the config file sets up a new installation like the old one without trouble. Somehow I don’t think you really need it if you aren’t distro hopping but I need it way too much.
Currently the trade offs are too big I think. Programs don’t work because of the atomic behaviour.
And the learning curve is steep even for Linux veterans.
Mhh fedora.
I liked it and I liked nobara.
However I liked debian more somehow.
But I could consider going back for his.
You don’t need nixos for that. The only thing you lose is rolling back system configuration, unless you use system-manager.
Unless you’re doing scientific computing, or being a sysadmin for a company, you don’t actually need nixos. It’s at that scale that system reproducibility becomes important enough to offset the downsides. For everyone else, home-manager and a list of packages are more than enough.
The learning curve is not that bad, it’s just that the resources are a pile of burning garbage.
Also, idk what you’re doing with VLC, but ~/.config should still work AFAIK.
I did install vlc. I started vlc. I noticed completely wrong subtitle size. I went to settings and tried to change some and save. Vlc throws an error it can’t save the file, permission error.
I install vlc with flatpak. Same subtitle error. I go to the settings, I don’t get an error but the settings don’t change anything.
Also almost anything i do in the plasma settings doesn’t get saved.
And that shit should only be saved in the home folder.
I think I have to clean my home folder.
But then I have to do the setup of plasma again.
Damn, that sucks.
I gave up on nixos long before getting to that point. On Debian I use apt for to install a few user packages like alacritty because of Nix issues. Everything else is pretty much the same linux experience.
