Asking tony: Is NixOS Just Hype? (2077 Edition)

There's a community of 8 users, that are very persistent, and always trying to get you to install NixOS. They swear by it and say it's the best thing ever happened after the discovery of fire and the invention of the wheel.

@tony-btw is one of those users, and he will share about NixOS with us, so we can see if it's just hype, or if we should give it a try.

Link to the video:

https://youtu.be/lMkvCfJ_k_w

What's the best way to support me?

https://linkarzu.com/about/#youre-a-fraud-why-do-you-ask-for-money-isnt-youtube-ads-enough

Timeline:

00:00:00 - Highlights

00:01:41 - First time tony showing his face

00:03:54 - Wat's tony's youtube channel about?

00:05:27 - Is there beef with Ubuntu? Canonical?

00:07:00 - Ubuntu and gnome

00:07:53 - Marker 5

00:08:19 - Why did you start a youtube channel?

00:09:54 - Professional and technical background

00:10:53 - Operating system you started with

00:14:01 - Why did you end up in nix? Is nix hype?

00:15:21 - Should Linkarzu switch to nix?

00:16:40 - Video setup my mac with a script

00:19:29 - Do you need to compile nix every time?

00:21:35 - What about dependency issues on macOS?

00:23:21 - What about docker and kubernetes?

00:24:33 - How difficult is to compile nix?

00:26:33 - What's the best linux distro?

00:27:38 - I'm all in for stability and Debian, I don't understand why you would run Arch

00:29:57 - People say Debian is the king of stability, why?

00:32:48 - Joshua Blais has me go into signal to send him messages

00:34:35 - Is gentoo hype or just bloatware?

00:37:56 - Who is gentoo for?

00:38:54 - Thoughts on macOS?

00:43:49 - ThePrimeagen workflow video

00:44:57 - Starcraft shortcuts and influence in workflow

00:46:50 - A streamdeck is bloatware

00:47:29 - Videogames, soul reaver, vice city, wow, dota, skyrim, goldeneye

00:49:56 - What games do you currently play?

00:51:02 - Skyrim, the best game ever

00:51:44 - Parenting

00:53:59 - Thoughts on Windows?

00:57:05 - The annoying linux user that tells windows users, windows sucks

00:58:59 - Thirld world countries use Windows, well, the world

01:01:30 - Thoughts on youtube sponsorships

01:04:12 - Thoughts on university degrees, certifications or none?

01:05:25 - Resuming university being 37 years old

01:06:51 - What's the beef with systemd?

01:09:34 - Appimages, flatpaks

01:11:16 - Davinci or OBS flatpacks or snaps?

01:12:10 - When you compile from sources, how do you update?

01:12:46 - Conspiracy theories against debian?

01:14:16 - Role models? John Carmack

01:16:04 - DistroTube influence

01:16:47 - Why are you using DT's mic?

01:17:25 - Any of you furries recognizes my girl mic?

01:19:45 - Mark Rippetoe

01:20:50 - Favorite movies

01:21:31 - No country for old men. Only for men of culture

01:23:14 - Hot take on Dune movie by Sylvan Franklin

01:24:07 - Beautiful Boy by Sylvan is way better

01:25:15 - tony demo on Nix, hugo

01:26:15 - hugo not installed

01:28:26 - dmenu flake demo

01:30:36 - Can your prompt tell you you're in a nix shell?

01:31:23 - What is dmenu? For bookmars I use raycast on macos

01:33:10 - I'm migrating from tmux to kitty sessions, kovid video

01:34:34 - kitty sessions video

01:36:01 - Kitty sessions demo, can't you memorize a few shortcuts?

01:37:18 - Recommending Mr Beast

01:37:56 - Why I can't move my bookmarks to dmenu