So I'm writing this after a day of work seeing my coworker use NixOS and I thought it was super cool. I've never seen anyone outside of youtube using it and I've been inspired to give it a shot. The best part about this is said coworker has public configs for me (and I guess you) to copy [here](https://gitlab.com/ragingpastry/nixos-configs). Previously looking into NixOS came up as "the OS for Kubernetes". I don't really understand that since you know...you can run k8s anywhere, but given that Nix is declarative I can kinda see the relation. I'm hoping this feels nothing like trying to use arch (steep-ish learning curve with the package manager) and that I like it. I don't see this replacing my love of Ubuntu desktop but I would like to be the person who floats across distros that fit "for the cause". ## What are your expectations? Well I expect nothing. lol I will either love declarative package managers or hate it. I'm just trying to give things a try. I am interested to see if this makes my Kubernetes skills better or worse. I suspect I'll be pretty even but you never know. ## Where are you running this? Great question...proxmox. I have a pending love-hate with proxmox but I'm waiting on a 4TB drive that I can use to split across distros. I could run it locally on virtual box, but...you guessed it, I'm out of space. lol Proxmox isn't the cleanest way to do this but I can install xdrp and remote into the desktop. This is also a great chance for me to figure out what I like and create a gold image of my "core" software (I already have a list going but it's heavy android setup). ## Alright what are your thoughts? I really have mix reviews about this OS. I like declarative things and it would make managing my workstation easier, but it can be pretty frustrating. Knowing when to do an install under packages vs a service almost made me give up. Not because I'm a quitter, but because in every other distro I just open a terminal and say "sudo apt/yum/etc install <pkg>". It's fairly quick and thoughtless. I think I will keep NixOS around but it's just for fun, not really for a real workstation for now.