Post

aly
@aly.codes

au contraire my take on nixos is that I do understand it and therefore think it is objectively bad

cafkafk@cafkafk.bsky.social

A lot of peoples take on NixOS is and I quote "I don't understand this therefore it is objectively bad", which some people somehow think is a good take that we have to take seriously

aly
@aly.codes

actually okay to make a serious take: probably my most steaming "nixos is bad" take isn't absolute it's that people way overuse nixpkgs service modules and treat nixos like an orchestrator when it rly rly rly isn't

aly
@aly.codes

I see this all the time yeah for one off services it's fine but the amount of delusion there is about this is concerning, how have some edgy nixos users negatively polarized themselves against containers?

aly
@aly.codes

I think that is undeniably true, it’s really bad But also like. There is no reason to run most things as systemd services when container orchestration exists

asa
@asap.systems

depends on what you mean by container orchestration docker compose is evil, and I think you can get very far with systemd-maxxing (depending on what you're hosting). I've never actually used kubernetes so I can't speak to that