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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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[–] iopq@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You only have one machine? I benefit from sharing configs between the laptop and the desktop. They are not the same, but I can easily copy paste a complex service I defined in my desktop to do the same thing on my laptop

[–] traches@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I have a desktop, laptop, and a few VMs and servery things. Dotfile manager (yadm, which is a git wrapper) to sync personal settings, everything else I just do manually. The system-level configs are either different enough that standardizing them isn’t very helpful, or no more complicated than installing packages and activating services.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Activating services is the specific task NixOS is great at, you can just add it and it downloads the packages and starts it and generates the configs

[–] traches@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

Yeah, I’ll probably switch eventually I’m just trying to talk myself out of it because I don’t have the time to learn right now