Wigy on Nostr: I was always lazy to spend time on customizing my OS, backing up all my settings and ...

I was always lazy to spend time on customizing my OS, backing up all my settings and automating deployment of them on a newly installed machine. You know me, I have lots of other places to spend my time on.

So I ended up with OS installers that gave me usable defaults. Since all machines in my family use Linux for the last 18 years, ease of use was very important for my mum, wife and kids as well. I went from Ubuntu Mate to Linux Mint Debian Edition as a daily driver when snaps started appearing everywhere at Canonical.

But there are people around me with more time and they use NixOS with great success. They do not use as many graphical software as my family does, but they can reproduce their whole environment including browser settings on a new machine in like 20 minutes. I adore that declarative approach to configuration, but never had the drive to make the jump.