nixCraft 🐧By age 40, a Linux user stops trying to install Arch on a toaster just to prove they can. They finally settle on Debian Stable or Mint because they realize they no longer have the "mental bandwidth" to spend 6 hours configuring stuff or fix broken systems just to check their email or watch Netflix. 😊
Cosmic Excursionist@nixCraft NixOS has been a good middle ground for me. The reproducability has afforded me more stability and I waste much less time on breakages. Reinstalls with all my configs on new machines are automated and easy, if something breaks rollbacks are as simple as rebooting and I can mix stable and unstable packages on a system. There was an initial time sink when I was still learning the language but now using it is easy.
Lambda@cosmicexcursionist @nixCraft I'm a debian user on my desktop workstation and arch on my older laptop, but I'm planning on switching to nixos for my workstation in the immediate future because the idea of functionally programming the system exactly as you want it and then having it as an immutable output is just way too appealing