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Discussion (8 Comments)Read Original on HackerNews

kesor•about 2 hours ago
How is this low-effort zero-value non-article even on the first page of HN in the first place?
SOLAR_FIELDS•about 1 hour ago
Agree but I think it’s interesting to discuss the larger implication here. Nix the language and ecosystem has historically been completely unapproachable for people unwilling to beat their head against the wall continuously to figure it out. It is famously unapproachable. Now, the benefits are accessible to the quasi-layman. Good news all around
linsomniac•about 1 hour ago
I've had a similar experience with NixOS configured by Claude Code, and it's been really nice. I have the same config on 3 machines, all managed in one git repo, including home manager and sops, and one of the machines I skin as a "thin client" removing most of my development tools and just using it to SSH/wezterm in to my main dev box, on a small and light ex-chromebook.
aidenn0•about 2 hours ago
I'm not sure how much of this is complicated because of NixOS; going this far off the beaten path would be rather complicated in any distro.

I'd be a lot more sure if the author had posted their nixos configuration somewhere...

tim-projects•about 2 hours ago
> Ultra lightweight

Doesn't nixos use a lot more diskspace than arch, because of its store?

linsomniac•about 1 hour ago
It seems like the "lightweight" they seem to be concerned with is RAM, not disc. I can't really comment on disc space usage on my own NixOS system, though my "thin client" skin does fit nicely on an old Chromebook, I think that guy has 32GB of storage.
whydoineedthis•about 1 hour ago
How is this considered “repeatable” when it takes several pages to describe how it’s glued together? By the same logic the pyramids of Giza are repeatable. Technically true, but not likely worth the effort.
aidenn0•about 1 hour ago
It took several hours to do the first time, and it will take several hours to do the next time. Sounds repeatable to me :)