• @Integrate777@discuss.online
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    324 days ago

    NixOS consist of a bunch of options that you define using the nix programming language. Since it’s a programming language, everything is well defined and organised into single place.

    Technically, someone could build a GUI configuration editor with sane defaults and clearly organised pages of settings, which generates a configuration for you. This could immediately change NixOS from the most tedious to a relatively easy to use distro.

    • @iopq@lemmy.world
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      214 days ago

      They already built a GUI editor, but a programmer made it so it is actually harder to use than the text file

    • @AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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      53 days ago

      And windows users are well known for their mastery of esoteric programming languages. Such as… um… ah… batch files, which, well, some of them can write. If they’re not more than four or five lines.
      But that counts, right?

      • Oniononon
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        63 days ago

        Linux users can’t regedit. Regedit uses some weird programming language only known to a few windows grand masters.

        It basically represents values with 16 possible symbols, ranging from 0 to f. We call it sixteendecimal. Very advanced. But nobody knows what they mean yet.

        This should give you linux users a pause the next time you belittle windows users for their lack of computer knowledge!