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The Quiet Revolution: GNU/Linux Crosses 6% Desktop Market Share—And It’s Just the Beginning (puri.sm)
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[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

NixOS isn't great for non-programmers, I bet, but for programmers it's amazing.

[–] DegenerateSupreme@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago

I’m just now starting my degree is software engineering. I’m 31. I’d gotten comfortable enough with Linux that I wanted to try NixOS to avoid having my system get borked again (in my case, KDE Plasma started having shell crashes at log in).

If I was only using NixOS to run a basic computer set up? Sure, no problem. If I want to rice and customize it? No, I wasn’t ready.