I love how this post is being opinion based and a place where sharing related ideas instead a directly solution, also appreciable.Thank you guys! Keep it like that.
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Hi, may I ask what type of hardware you want to run NixOS on?
Any actually. But now I have a Intel Celeron and 4GB of RAM, runs very well there.
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I still dream of being able to declaratively change my init system on Nixos.
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Cool. I ran NixOS on one NAS with a Intel Core Duo 2 CPU, 4GB RAM and SSD as a system disk. It works all fine. `nixos-rebuild` takes bit more time than on newer ones, but I don’t think runtime is nowhere near inverse to CPU performance.
4GB used to be a “workstation” long time ago. It is hilarious how powerful even "“IoT devices” are nowadays. I realized some time ago that my HDDs have 4x cache than my first computer’s HDD was and CPUs have far more L1 cache than what I had RAM on a computer that ran Windows in mid 90s.
Software gets slower faster than …
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I use a post-install script that i run after installing Void, which sets up the system related things for me, But it’s obviously not as robust as an actual system like nix is. I suppose it’s the best i can do for now if i want to use something other than systemd. I think i already saw someone else mention in this thread that there is someone working on a project that uses S6 with nix, but i don’t think it’s really usable as a daily driver yet.