hi I’m still exploring stuff and I was thinking about nix, with all his stuff, what do you guys think? maybe someone with experience can tell me if I should stay away from that or could be a good choice for privacy, anonimity and security
hi I’m still exploring stuff and I was thinking about nix, with all his stuff, what do you guys think? maybe someone with experience can tell me if I should stay away from that or could be a good choice for privacy, anonimity and security
I don’t know what gave you the idea that a particular distro would be an especially good/bad choice for privacy, etc. They’re all GNU/Linux with only minor differences in compile-time options in the kernel and different defaults in user-space. But they’re just that, defaults. You can reconfigure them to your preference.
With that out of the way, the issue NixOS attempts to address is reproducibility. You get a central configuration infrastructure that defines everything, from partition layout, through user creation and package installation to software configuration. The central idea being that migrating to a new machine or setting up a new development environment should only take a few commands.
What you do with that is up to you. You can barricade the whole system if you like. The defaults are sane, but not overly focused on privacy, etc.
Also it’s quite a learning curve as the documentation/wiki is incomplete and/or outdated.
The wiki is not even recommended, since some time already nobody has access to the wiki, even to put a banner “stay away, everything is not working and outdated”
So we have to piece information together from the manual and random blogs? Like cavemen? Or worse, like Windows users??
The Matrix room is the recommended channel of support
I personally think it’s a bit a waste of somebody’s time to always sit there and reply
Also, when you start understanding how this stuff works, you can start using github’s search code so you can find snippets of code and make your own (or just look at the packages’ code, it’s very basic inside)
Ah, and forgot to mention because it’s too obvious, nixpkgs search, this is basically all you need for free movement inside “nixverse”