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.
Way over complex lol. I don’t copy anything to online source for better or worse. I auto script backups. The only backups you’ll ever need are nix config. Nothing else aside from your home folder obviously. With those two you can boot on any machine, anytime, as if you never left. I am not shilling. It’s been dead stable so far, aside from tweaks I done to break my own builds testing.
Hmm yeah, I guess the question is: is it overly complex if I do want to store my backup of my Nix config online, version-controlled, preferably publicly?
Way over complex lol. I don’t copy anything to online source for better or worse. I auto script backups. The only backups you’ll ever need are nix config. Nothing else aside from your home folder obviously. With those two you can boot on any machine, anytime, as if you never left. I am not shilling. It’s been dead stable so far, aside from tweaks I done to break my own builds testing.
Hmm yeah, I guess the question is: is it overly complex if I do want to store my backup of my Nix config online, version-controlled, preferably publicly?
No. There are many of us that do that, I do, I found two random people online that did that and used their configs as a help when I was learning.
If you do then your golden. That’s the way to go. I dislike online things. Personal preference. There’s advantages going the GIT method as well.