• steeznson@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    NixOS sounds like ansible in OS form and that has never seemed appealing. Happy to hear why my impression is wrong though!

    • smiletolerantly@awful.systems
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      9 hours ago

      Think about it like this:

      • with ansible, you are responsible for making sure that executing the described steps in the described order leads to the desired result

      • with nix, you describe what you want your system to look like, and then figuring out how to get there is nix’s problem (or rather, is obvious to nix thanks to nixpkgs)