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Do you stick to the same linux distro across your devices? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Sunny@slrpnk.net to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hej lemmings! (Hoping this is relevant enough for the selfhosted commjnity)

Quick question for you all: do you stick with the same distro across your PC, laptop, and server, or do you pick different ones based on the device and what you're doing?

For me, I've been mixing and matching depending on the use case, but I'm starting to think it'd be nice to just have one distro (or at least one family like Fedora or Debian) running everywhere. That way I wouldn't get confused about default settings or constantly have to look up flags for different package managers.

Right now my setup is:

Gaming rig: CachyOS
Laptop: AuroraOS
NAS: Unraid
Various project servers: DietPi, Debian, Alpine etc..

I feel like NixOS might be the only distro that could realistically handle all these use cases, but I'm a bit scared of the learning curve and the maintenance work it'd take to migrate everything over.

Am I the only one who feels like having "one distro to rule them all" would be nice? How do you guys handle your setups? All ears! 😊

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What is the learning/on-boarding curve for this?

I ask because my home folder has a giant just file I use to script everything. I feel like I’m 80% there to just migrating.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's a very steep curve to start, with some additional minor steep parts along the way, but it's not a long curve. Once you got the core concepts and the basic language constructs, you've learned most of what you'll ever need.

Two nice resources: search.nixos.org is super handy, and you can search GitHub with language:nix and a search term to get tons of examples from other people.

Oh, and nix and just is actually a pretty common combo!

[–] StellarExtract@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

Nice, I'll have to remember that GitHub trick. The main thing I've found lacking so far is config examples.

[–] StellarExtract@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'd say that if you're an experienced developer, the learning curve is probably overstated, at least based on my limited experience. I'm still a relatively new user, but I'm feeling pretty comfortable with it so far.

[–] Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

Hitting obscure issues with limited documentation and barely any forum discussions on it in search results is killing me though. But at the same time NixOS makes a lot of things incredibly easy and offloads having to remember any changes so it's worth all the effort for me.