I love nixos, it's been my daily driver for the last 3 years for work and home.

A more accurate metaphor would be:

• When modding the car, with a arch, Debian of most other distros you actually mod the car. If you want to change the seats you physically install new seats.
• With nixos you don't intervene directly on the car, you change the blueprint of the car and let the robot reassemble the car according to the blueprint.

This makes arch look pretty good.

Yeah that’s true, it’s more like changing the car builds a new car every time in case you want to go back to an old one (or eventually prune/gc and say good bye to the old cars lol)

I wonder what centOS would be like? Somthing out of commission, but remembered fondly even though it was anything but special or elegant. But it worked. And if not you could fix it easily. Maybe a trabant?

More like the car changes parts around the user space. You still have the driver and baggage (files) intact inside the car.

Alternatively, you build a new car and teleport all of the inside of the car there, teleport the car to wherever the old one was and keep going from there.

And if not you could fix it easily

And if not, you could leave it with the rest of the paper for recycling.

/s

What the hell, that thing Is real!? I thought those were just some concept drawings like you get for future space craft from the 70's.

Thats a cool sentiment but dont downvote the post because of that. That is the exact behaviour preventing many foss projects from becoming mainstream. Instead of disabling eachother if you had just commented this it wouldve been a really cool bit of constructive criticism. Still also it is just a meme.

It need to be something elegant and powerful, but not unfortunately not perfect; all while still being available to most people. A Rover SD1 perhaps:

I meam on boot it does do quite a lot of stuff and there are people who run nixos setups that basically erase everything and then relink the nix store to your root when you boot. Even tho i like nixos thats a bit too far for me. I use nixos like its an immutable distro where i build the image.

Nah, that's Linux from Scratch.

Gentoo is a Caterham 7

TIL

LFS is just a dew blocks of plastic, iron, copper and the rest of the raw materials.

I'm not sure the metaphor works, I'm the only person who uses my computer, I don't go down to the computer station and wait for someone to drive the public computer along.

A pc is much more like a car than a train; it is something you own and you are responsible for. You get to choose the operating system and the software that is installed, you get to choose the colour of the box.

Linux isn't public transport, it's a factory that lets anyone come and help build a car. If you have a better idea for a steering wheel, or think that there's a problem with the engine you can fix, Linux lets you into the factory to make those changes.

Damn, I might need to hop to Kali

where's gentoo?

Debian must be the 1999 Toyota Corolla

what car would omarchy be? and what car would amogOS be?

Which one is GNU Guix?

Guix is enthusiastic, principled, lean, very reliable, it is rolling release, completely defined and automatically built from source, but with cached binary standard packages. You have something like Python's virtual environments in a terminal/shell, but with any distro package, and you can go back to any old version.

How would SuSE Tumpleweed in a VM on top of OpenSuSE Leap look? (That is a system which is a very stable base (a bit like Debian) but with a very current rolling release edition on top of it - which is a great solution for combining productivity (shit just works) with a highly actual development environment.)

Debian is also one of the most secure distributions in terms of user control and security against vulnerabilities, since it is the same OS that runs most of the servers in the world - and therefore gets very quick and reliable security updates.

Still compiling.

You also have to pray that your wifi works if using the default libre kernel. I'd liken it to a VW Beetle with a V12 engine swapped in to get it to run

I wonder if the job requirements for that role are really strict, or really relaxed.

Like, "you must have 10+ years experience cycling, live in the Vatican, be a Catholic, and know CQC to a deadly degree"... or.... "be Nunzio's neighbours boy and be willing to wear a dress."

You wouldn't download a new car each time you want to download a new car.

omarchy

Makes sense why I like arch then because I dream of being able to have the time and money to build a car

I daily drive Debian on a couple of thirteen year old laptops. This is exactly right and I’m damn happy about it.

which is the joke.

Debian is more like a honda accord or toyota prius.

Reliable, and only real car guys know they're cool.

I have a regular bike because it is even cheaper to run than an ebike. What distro should we use?

Untaxed, unregistered, unlicensed, uninsured. Do all the maintenance myself.

Reliable, and only real car guys know they're cool.

Civic, then, or Corolla

Civic, prius, yaris, corolla, accord (basically 90% f japanese cars) can be fit in this category

Newbie: Hi I just want a distro to go shopping and for family tasks.

Mechanic: You want a racing car. Lift the hood and I'll show you how to operate all the adjustments. Racing cars need lots of tuning and youll need wide tyres too.

Newbie: Can't I just drive to the shops?

Mechanic: But you need to learn under the hood first. That's what Linux is all about.

Newbie: there is also no room for shopping in this racing car.

Mechanic: there is if it's just text files. Don't bother with all that jpeg and binary bloat.

Newbie: You know, as much as I hate Windows, either I didn't need a mechanic, or got one who didn't insist open the hood to operate it.

Ok, right, mine is 7 instead.

openSUSE would be a family SUV Porche

Vista, more likely. Win 7 wasn't a chonky one (for the hardware of the time).

Also the development department lets you borrow the current new generation prototype if you want and suddenly it's all current tech.

Do you have a picture?

Yeah I think it is a bit optimized for comfort.

Mor like gentoo or lfs... Arch nowadays is foolproof

3.11 you mean.

Kind of you to assume Arch Linux is going to tell you what the outcome is going to look like :D

You wouldn’t download a car.

Gentoo:

Can you explain why? I am from Germany ... we don't have that kind of pickup.

I dunno, my first thought for Bazzite after switching from Windows a couple of months ago was more like this:

And immutable distros in general would be like this:

Faster by far than getting stuck in Windows traffic and It Just Works(tm) to get you where you want to go, but it's more difficult to go off the beaten path.

I want that one:

How is the distro called?

Me too. Rock solid, sane and lightning.