The feeling of "conflating reality and whatever computer topic you're currently engrossed in" is too real.
this post was submitted on 01 May 2025
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Some mixed signals here... she should double-check gender.nix
It is a copy of the Reddit post, I doubt these two accounts are the same https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/s/7zuK1ifOOo
Either way it's just a funny post, nobody would actually go through such a hyper focus leaving their wife behind....
... right?
Christ, I knocked over my home theater system when I tried to transition to Mint and absolutely did spend a night sleeping on the couch over it.
She was cis until she started using Nix.
You can just recompile your gender. There's nobody who can stop you.
Most trans people would say they were never cis. But if she's the exception, the breakup could be explained as a result of the transition if the wife is straight.
Most trans people would say they were never cis.
Bad terminology on my part, I wasn't sure how else to phrase it!
I mean, if you were intending it as a joke your phrasing works just as well.
"Gender assigned at birth" would be more accurate, but way too clunky in a sentence.
I believe it's because they're not using flakes properly. One of them is relying on an outdated channel, and ends up using outdated pronouns.
So NixOS is like freebasing Arch, got it. I'm still tempted to spin up a VM, just a taste...
Rip
They'll find her years later, twitching and mumbling, buried under a printout of https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/options
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I showed this meme to my husband (who uses Arch, btw). He didn't know what NixOS was and is now curious. What have I done?
You set a timer on your marriage, I'm sorry for you.
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Ummm...
I use Arch btw π
Take care of that dude's wife.
Debian developer/user here. My marriage just works.
To be fair, your SO is so old they don't know what a meme is. Maybe in a few more years they will catch up to the rest of us
We will be hiking together until then.
What a noob, with just roll back to an earlier build of your relationship, duh!
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I'm a masochist, not only have I installed Arch from CLI several times, I've attempted running GPU passthrough to a Windows VM on several different distros just to play like 3 games that only run on Windows.
I attempted this through a fresh build of Arch, 7800 XT for the Linux system and an RTX 3090 for the VM. Every attempt in hijacking the 3090 failed, refusing to not load the card on boot. I struggled with this for hours and days, and through multiple different distros, all while my gf pretended to understand what the fuck I was talking about. "Ok, honey, I'll be in the living room watching my shows."
This went on for a while until I decided to give up and just build a second system dedicated for MichaelSoft Bindows.
When my Plex server had a botched TrueNAS update, this effected her as well. Not only were there shows she was watching on there, but she had to endure a week of me copying my media from different drives to rebuild the server on every piece of storage I had in the apartment. I'd come home from work and immediately continue working on it. Computers left on overnight with little progress bars slowly filling up. She'd call me into the kitchen for dinner or ask me to come to bed at 1am when we both had to be up at 6am.
She was actually supportive, maybe a little annoyed, but supportive nonetheless. Everything has now worked as intended for over a year and she even uses our home theater PC running Mint with no complaints or hiccups. Soon I will convince her to move her gaming PC to Linux as well, in due time though.
Stay with her. Supporting you without understanding what the fuck it is you're doing is a huge green flag for a lasting relationship/marriage.
Also, reflect on how you can give her the same support, with things where you don't know or understand her struggle.
Soon I will convince her to move her gaming PC to Linux
Soon you should convince her to marry you (if that's your thing)
True love.
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Somehow NixOS really is like a fucking crack. I had like a 6 months non-stop hyperfixation about configuring everything using NixOS and Home Manager. Almost every evening. Now I have a polished setup of my personal and work laptops, homelab server and a VPS. And I have no regrets, this thing is amazing.
whispering into the void
That's it, that's the problem. You talked to another distribution while still using the previous one. Yous lost your wife's trust, then it was over.
Arch User here btw.... she left me after pacman -Syu broke my system again. I think I saw her with a Debian User.... Damn stable systems!
Debian girl here. We may not have updated anything in 5 years but boy howdy are things stable or what.
Tch... Who can live with packages that are more than a few days old!? All my packages are bleeding edge and there are only ~~minor~~ ~major~ version conflicts
Debian here, it's true, I have both their wives
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Immutable distros are a great invention, and soon I'll be switching to one, once I figure out a couple of things.
Definitely enjoy using my computer and less managing my computer. Trying new things and tinkering is much more liberating with immutables.
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my wife has endured so much waffle about how great nixos is
i feel bad for her
At some point talking to a NixOS user becomes impsb bc they have evt as alias n they spk in it
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I've used various flavors of Arch for years. I tried Nix and spent several hours failing to do anything - like table-stakes shit like installing packages.
I went back to Arch.
The way out is through
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Uh oh. I just learned about NixOS right now and I'm intrigued.
You may have lost your wife but at least you kept your virginity and thats the real victory !
You can nixos-rebuild her, you have the technology.
I want to like Nix. The idea of declarative managing is super appealing. But I just don't have the time. My dream is to leverage both worlds, a cloud native Nix based OS. Every time I sit down to plan that task it looks daunting though.
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