Activating services is the specific task NixOS is great at, you can just add it and it downloads the packages and starts it and generates the configs

It’s less simple than text because it actually takes more space to view the same amount of configs.

Package your own if you need it

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

You run the script that generates hardware config file for you, it’s literally one command

You only have one machine? I benefit from sharing configs between the laptop and the desktop. They are not the same, but I can easily copy paste a complex service I defined in my desktop to do the same thing on my laptop

Because you end up feeling unsatisfied with running the thing until you package it. I don’t even understand the Nix language and I still messed around with a couple of packages

Nix has more up to date packages than most distros have packages in total. There’s a bot that goes around updating them automatically if they are from github. Maybe there’s an issue with your package?

If you download a binary you can just steam-run it and it just works

Then I sign up and verify my email just to find out I need to be approved by an admin. An admin never approves me. I just wasted my time

I don’t know why your browser would report itself as a linux browser just because it’s behind a proxy or VPN

Jellyfin us easy to run, but then when you are running it it just doesn’t have your files. Are they in the incorrect folder structure? Who knows

I literally just run Kodi and it just works, I can browse my folders and watch stuff

I discovered they have a Matrix server where people will literally debug your config for you and help you solve issues. But you are right, if you try doing it yourself without help you’ll be pulling your hair out

Equality of opportunities for blacks and Latinos means discrimination for Asians. And people here wonder why Trump won votes from people who are not white men

Lunduke?

Didn’t do that for me, still believe in human rights and don’t embrace the left wing. I believe in the freedom to make contracts with people without the government telling you that your profits are too high or whatever the left wing is pushing for

NixOS by far has the most momentum right now.

Just check the non-unique package counts:

https://repology.org/repositories/statistics/nonunique

More than 80K packages that exist in other distros, more than all of packages in AUR combined with 90%+ being the newest version in unstable

And you can run unstable without an issue since you can downgrade individual packages whenever

I upgraded LTS versions and it failed and left my system in a broken state I couldn’t fix

It’s doing great unless you want to debug why chromium is not connecting to your USB devices

Hint: because they forced snap in you which doesn’t support USB access

I was about to respond with this, you’re still in college in your early 20s. Most of us don’t get a four year degree done in actual four years

We got junior devs in their late 20s because they were doing grad school until like 28