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About Me
Personal blog · rasmuskirk.com/articles · on HN as rasmus-kirkprogrammingeconomicsculture
About Me is a personal blog at rasmuskirk.com about programming, economics and culture. Since 2024, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Don't Use NixOS”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in an HN thread on syncing or migrating KDE settings, as a resource for using Nix on non-NixOS distros. The linked post is titled "don't use nixos" and is cited alongside other Nix guides.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Don't Use NixOS3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-07-24
What Hacker News says?
Not the guy you're replying to but Home manager: https://rasmuskirk.com/articles/2024-07-24_dont-use-nixos/
Comment linking /articles/2024-07-24_dont-use-nixos/
on “Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC, put Linux on it”Submitted Lasso Transactions – Fund Creators and Combat Free-Riders Without Copyright as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI think a lot of the nix people are overly puritan when it comes to using Nix. Everything must be reproducible, etc. I have found my perfect sweetspot by abandoning NixOS and instead using home-manager + PopOS. That way, if something doesn't work on Nix, I'll just look up the ubuntu guide, BUT i still get by far most of the reproducibility of Nix and the massive package set. I wrote a longer blog post about it some…
Comment linking /articles/2024-07-24_dont-use-nixos/
on “Home Manager: Dotfiles Management”Submitted Don't Use NixOS as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://rasmuskirk.com/ My personal blog and resume. I have written a couple of blog-posts: - 2025-06-18: Lasso Transactions as an alternative to Copyright A Solution to Fund Creativity and Combat the Free-Rider Problem in a World Without Copyright. https://rasmuskirk.com/articles/2025-06-18_lasso-transactions-as-an-alternative-to-copyright - 2024-12-23: Why Nix Is the Perfect Package Manager for Your Steam Deck An…
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Turn Your Android into a Dumb-Phone as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNice, I didn't know nix could be used on any distro; I only knew about it from my friend who's a nixos enthusiast. Few links I found, for anyone else encountering this for the first time: https://rasmuskirk.com/articles/2024-07-24_dont-use-nixos/ https://tech.aufomm.com/my-nix-journey-use-nix-with-ubuntu/ https://jeancharles.quillet.org/posts/2023-02-07-The-home-ma... https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/16tdugd/…
Comment linking /articles/2024-07-24_dont-use-nixos/
on “Ask HN: How do you sync or migrate KDE settings?”Submitted Why Nix Is the Perfect Package Manager for Your Steam Deck as a story · 2 points
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