Hello, for some time I’m considering which Linux distro to use to have relatively fresh packages as well as not to waste too much time for admin work.
Morever, it would be ideal to have same distro for the machine of my relative’s to make it easier during trouble.shooting session. So, in order to fulfill those two requirements I did consider to stay with Debian (Sid) on my desktop and netbook machines, but put Debian Stable on the machines of my relatives. However, after checking about NixOS which I tried many years ago, I’ve concluded it’s the best option at the moment since I learnt that nixos-stable might be good-enough for other’s machine requiring not much admin time, while I can use nixos-unstable if stable channel is not fresh–enough for my own needs. So, before jumping to install on real hardware - today I did install under vbox, I’ve few questions… My desktop is i7 2.8G/16G machine having 1xTB+1x2TB disks which are assembled in btrfs raid1 with / and /home as btrfs subvolumes (the remaining 1TB is used for daily backups.) I’m delighted that NixOS provides ZFS as filesytem option since it was one of the reasons why I was evaluating Free/PC-BSD option in the past. a) do you, in general, recommend using ZFS over Btrfs for NixOS desktop machine? b) is ZFS good option even for single-disk netbook machine with 4G of memory? c) can one use ZFS on root *without* usage of separate /boot partition? I use same disk layout on Debian, but with btrfs and do not have any experience with ZoL, although I’ve found that there is ’boot.loader.grub.zfsSupport’ option? Any doc/tutorial explaining how to do such install? I’ve found: https://gist.github.com/vizanto/7374277 but wonder if it is still relevant? There are of course few packages I do miss in NixOS, but everything else is so great, so that I’m very enthusiastic to put NixOS on all my relative’s machines very soon. On all machines, I plan to use GNOME3, so wonder if there are some gotchas in regard - someone on #nixoes mentioned that GTK does not like custom paths as used by Nix and recommended i3 instead which is, atm, not option considering that other family members also use my machine and relatives are not savvy-enough for that tiling wm. Sincerely, Gour -- Therefore, without being attached to the fruits of activities, one should act as a matter of duty, for by working without attachment one attains the Supreme. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev