A review of Nix/NixOS after using it on all my machines for three years. I'll cover what works, what doesn't, and why it's the first OS that's stuck with me.
  • utopiah@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    Feels very arbitrary. Why would I care about say MacOS versus FreeBSD or say NeXTSTEP (just to be provocative)?

    Anyway I’m being pulled away from the actual argument, the “bare metal” argument is about performances, isn’t it?

    • iopq@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Yes, the systems people actually use vs every system that exists. Very arbitrary

      • utopiah@lemmy.ml
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        1 month ago

        What I mean is that MacOS is proprietary and runs on specific hardware, it’s by design not meant to be interoperable so it’s not “just” popularity.