Published on: 2025-06-11 11:23:50
For one of my network storage PC builds, I was looking for an alternative to Flatcar Container Linux and tried out NixOS again (after an almost 10 year break). There are many ways to install NixOS, and in this article I will outline how I like to install NixOS on physical hardware or virtual machines: over the network and fully declaratively. Introduction: Declarative? The term declarative means that you describe what should be accomplished, not how. For NixOS, that means you declare what soft
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For one of my network storage PC builds, I was looking for an alternative to Flatcar Container Linux and tried out NixOS again (after an almost 10 year break). There are many ways to install NixOS, and in this article I will outline how I like to install NixOS on physical hardware or virtual machines: over the network and fully declaratively. Introduction: Declarative? The term declarative means that you describe what should be accomplished, not how. For NixOS, that means you declare what soft
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ZDNET's key takeaways NixOS is an open-source operating system that is available to install and use for free. It offers several desktop environments to choose from, is as rock-solid as any OS on the market, and performs quite well. However, there's a fairly steep learning curve for installing non-free software. View now at Nixos Before we get into this review, I want to offer some information for new Linux users. If you're uncomfortable using the command line or diving down rabbit holes to fi
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Mike Hill/Getty Images In the decades since I started using Linux, I've experienced just about every distribution ever created, some of which were user-friendly and some of which were not. In some cases, I was determined to use them just for the bragging rights that I'd installed and used one of the most challenging operating systems on the planet. Other times, I just needed something to work out of the box. Also: 5 ways to use the Linux terminal on your Android phone - including my favorite
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ZDNET's key takeaways NixOS is an open-source operating system that is available to install and use for free. It offers several desktop environments to choose from, is as rock-solid as any OS on the market, and performs quite well. However, there's a fairly steep learning curve for installing non-free software. View now at Nixos Before we get into this review, I want to offer some information for new Linux users. If you're uncomfortable using the command line or diving down rabbit holes to fi
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Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET In the decades since I started using Linux, I've experienced just about every distribution ever created, some of which were user-friendly and some of which were not. In some cases, I was determined to use them just for the bragging rights that I'd installed and used one of the most challenging operating systems on the planet. Other times, I just needed something to work out of the box. Also: Miss old-school Linux? This distro will take you back to the early 2000s
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Convenient LLMs at Home I’ve been wanting to experiment with LLMs in my homelab, but didn’t want the overhead of a dedicated GPU machine or the slowness of CPU processing. I also wanted everything to be convenient long-term: updates needed to be automated, and if the OS dies rebuilding needed to be quick and easy, etc. Running NixOS with WSL on my gaming PC seemed like the perfect solution, but I kept running into several challenges: Concerns of my vram getting locked to LLMs WSL would shut
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ZDNET's key takeaways NixOS is an open-source operating system that is available to install and use for free. It offers several desktop environments to choose from, is as rock-solid as any OS on the market, and performs quite well. However, there's a fairly steep learning curve for installing non-free software. View now at Nixos Before we get into this review, I want to offer some information for new Linux users. If you're uncomfortable using the command line or diving down rabbit holes to fi
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ZDNET's key takeaways NixOS is an open-source operating system that is available to install and use for free. It offers several desktop environments to choose from, is as rock-solid as any OS on the market, and performs quite well. However, there's a fairly steep learning curve for installing non-free software. View now at Nixos Before we get into this review, I want to offer some information for new Linux users. If you're uncomfortable using the command line or diving down rabbit holes to fi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-15 11:42:00
ZDNET's key takeaways NixOS is an open-source operating system that is available to install and use for free. It offers several desktop environments to choose from, is as rock-solid as any OS on the market, and performs quite well. However, there's a fairly steep learning curve for installing non-free software. View now at Nixos Before we get into this review, I want to offer some information for new Linux users. If you're uncomfortable using the command line or diving down rabbit holes to fi
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