NixOS Is A Fascinating Linux Distribution DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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mynamebestname
in some senses, this is one of the most user friendly Linux distros out there..
I am much of a noob when it comes to low level Linux stuff. Often, with other distros, I have been breaking my system by screwing up installations or I have been playing hours of wack-a-mole to get something working on my systems..
NixOs helps me validate and sanity check my configuration, and I am quite happy every time it catches some error I have made in my configuration.. Furthermore do I use my config file as documentation to help me understand and remember the purpose of various crypticly named Linux packages.
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in some senses, this is one of the most user friendly Linux distros out there..
I am much of a noob when it comes to low level Linux stuff. Often, with other distros, I have been breaking my system by screwing up installations or I have been playing hours of wack-a-mole to get something working on my systems..
NixOs helps me validate and sanity check my configuration, and I am quite happy every time it catches some error I have made in my configuration.. Furthermore do I use my config file as documentation to help me understand and remember the purpose of various crypticly named Linux packages.
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Casey
Good video. I wanted to point out though that the -stateVersion- isn't -what point it is building from-. It's actually more about the data that isn't part of nix. The kinds of things that are not recoverable and a rollback can't fix. It's pretty much a warning to back up anything with state like databases. There are many services that support many database versions, but you want to make sure to back up your data before they update.
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Good video. I wanted to point out though that the -stateVersion- isn't -what point it is building from-. It's actually more about the data that isn't part of nix. The kinds of things that are not recoverable and a rollback can't fix. It's pretty much a warning to back up anything with state like databases. There are many services that support many database versions, but you want to make sure to back up your data before they update.
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jgnmoose
RedHat was doing the config file build thing since 20 years ago called KickStart, and it worked great. Sun Microsystems was doing it before that called JumpStart, and it worked great. Have to admit that I am surprised more Linux Distros haven't been doing this all along. Once you know what that build looks like, this is the way to go.
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RedHat was doing the config file build thing since 20 years ago called KickStart, and it worked great. Sun Microsystems was doing it before that called JumpStart, and it worked great. Have to admit that I am surprised more Linux Distros haven't been doing this all along. Once you know what that build looks like, this is the way to go.
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Milo
Man this OS is cool. This could be a game changer in Linux in installing and managing systems. They seem to have almost every package available I ever considered running in their repos, so they are not lacking anything like some new distros. However, I am a little disappointed that a single company seems to be behind it all though.
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Man this OS is cool. This could be a game changer in Linux in installing and managing systems. They seem to have almost every package available I ever considered running in their repos, so they are not lacking anything like some new distros. However, I am a little disappointed that a single company seems to be behind it all though.
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Alonzo
If you don't wanna have to install everything systemwide you can use home-manager which allows you to configure your users environment individually. Reduces the total system bloat on a reinstall as the core system is made as small as possible. It also means you don't need to use sudo every time for adding new programs.
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If you don't wanna have to install everything systemwide you can use home-manager which allows you to configure your users environment individually. Reduces the total system bloat on a reinstall as the core system is made as small as possible. It also means you don't need to use sudo every time for adding new programs.
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Milo
BTW -DistroTube... the magic incantation you were looking for to su and become root, is this: -sudo su --. Most sysadmins in an enterprise environment don't even know the root password, and using sudo is the only way to become root.
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BTW -DistroTube... the magic incantation you were looking for to su and become root, is this: -sudo su --. Most sysadmins in an enterprise environment don't even know the root password, and using sudo is the only way to become root.
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Eric
- - 7:40
Most fresh Linux installs
If secondary user was created during install
Then in a terminal
The first command you should run on a fresh install is
$ sudo passwd ##sets the password for the root account
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- - 7:40
Most fresh Linux installs
If secondary user was created during install
Then in a terminal
The first command you should run on a fresh install is
$ sudo passwd ##sets the password for the root account
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Quinton
The G is silent, like in Gnome. You can pronounce it -new-, or if you want to do it the proper way, as in where it comes from, South Africa and the name of an antelope, you say -noo-
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The G is silent, like in Gnome. You can pronounce it -new-, or if you want to do it the proper way, as in where it comes from, South Africa and the name of an antelope, you say -noo-
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