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  • just_another_person@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlIntroduction to Nix & NixOS
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    9 hours ago

    This…is not what this project represents or is meant for. Christ.

    I can’t count the number of times people gloss over the actual useful tools they are given in the immutable world, and try and distill it down to being about desktop bullshit.

    NIX IS FOR REPRODUCIBLE BUILDS. That’s fucking it, seriously. It’s literally on their website.

    Stop trying to put a hat on a hat for some random crap you thought was a good idea.

    IT’S A HORRIFIC EXPERIENCE FOR NEW USERS TRYING TO RUN A DESKTOP. Steer clear.

    Edit: this is some dumb shit

    Although we cannot achieve complete system reproducibility, the /home directory, being an important user directory, contains many necessary configuration files

    That’s literally all it’s good for… reproducible builds.

    Fuck off whoever posted this.

    Edit2: oh wait… It’s the boot account that is polluting everything in these threads


  • Metadata and context is the difference.

    Using fd you literally only grab a list of, well…file descriptors. It’s not looking into content of anything, and specific built-ins ignore things like contents of gitignore files. See for yourself.

    You’re comparing apples and oranges here.

    If you have 100GB, the question is more about what you want it to scan, and why. If you don’t need to know where media files are, exclude those directories. Same with git repos and such.