Hacker News Reader

we had to setup a simple linux for the purpose of diplsaying some stats on the attached screen. choices were: debian and nixos. debian would take approx half day to setup (given other project tasks). nix os was chosen and it took 2 weeks and now it is rather hard for non-nix user to fix anything.

View on HN

To be fair, at one point that was the general Linux experience: half a day on Windows, a week on Linux and then “nobody else can fix it”.

I’m not arguing for Nix (had a look and it seemed more complex than I can bear at the moment), just that new tech in general needs time before it can be properly compared.

Well, sure, anything that's unfamiliar to you is hard to fix. For me it would be exactly the other way around, because I'm quite familiar with NixOS and mostly unfamiliar with Debian.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com