Linux TryingNixOs
Overview
A few months ago I switched from a mini pc hosting windows and docker to a machine hosting docker on Ubuntu. It was quite an adventure, not very funny I have to admit. But today … I m really happy of the result. I m havent been managing the machine much since the setup was done. It s been a long road to configure the use of my Nvidia’s video card through Docker, to try and host an LLM, to host my gite repository. But this is stable, the big issues I was having with windows, mostly the PC rebooting without my permission and docker not starting properly are gone. The machine is up and running and I dont need to worry about it. I havent got a 404 error when trying to access my git repo.
Would I switch from Windows to Linux for my day to day tasks ? Absolutely not. I m not reay for that yet. My windows PC is still a wonderfull tool to develop, host VMS, etc… Still lately, while following some youtube channel, I fell on some videos about another Linux distribution : NixOs. I like the declarative aspect of it. At the moment I m thinking in case of a server crash, it would be so easy to rebuild my server with this declarative way, instead of redoing manually all those steps I had to go through with Linux. Maybe it s laziness maybe not, but for my perspective is I dont want to waste a few days on rebuilding my whole server. I am aware NixOS might be more complicated to get my hands on than Ubuntu but my curiosity is itching me.
Thanks LTT !
NixOS
First attempt did not go well, tried 3 times to reinstall from scratch with different boot options unsuccessfully. I never managed to boot from the nvme disk. Next try I will download the version without Plasma and retry.