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diff --git a/_posts/2019-06-02-stateless-os.md b/_posts/2019-06-02-stateless-os.md index 2f15c17..2614b44 100644 --- a/_posts/2019-06-02-stateless-os.md +++ b/_posts/2019-06-02-stateless-os.md @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ layout: post lang: en ref: stateless-os --- -Last week[^1] I changed back to an old[^2] Samsung laptop, and installed +Last week[^last-week] I changed back to an old[^old-computer] Samsung laptop, and installed [NixOS](https://nixos.org/) on it. After using NixOS on another laptop for around two years, I wanted @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ files and personal data. I gravitated towards NixOS after trying (and failing) to create an `install.sh` script that would imperatively install and configure my whole OS using apt-get. When I found a GNU/Linux distribution that was built on top of the idea of -declaratively specifying the whole OS I was automatically convinced[^3]. +declaratively specifying the whole OS I was automatically convinced[^convinced-by-declarative-aspect]. I was impressed. Even though I've been experiencing the benefits of Nix isolation daily, I always felt skeptical that something would be @@ -129,17 +129,16 @@ Stow or any similar tool, etc., [I'd like some tips](mailto:eu@euandre.org). If you don't have any experience at all, [I'd still love to hear from you](mailto:eu@euandre.org). -[^1]: "Last week" as of the start of this writing, so around the end - of May 2019. +[^last-week]: "Last week" as of the start of this writing, so around the end of + May 2019. -[^2]: I was using a 32GB RAM, i7 and 250GB SSD Samsung laptop. The - switch was back to a 8GB RAM, i5 and 500GB HDD Dell laptop. The - biggest difference I noticed was on faster memory, both RAM - availability and the disk speed, but I had 250GB less local storage - space. +[^old-computer]: I was using a 32GB RAM, i7 and 250GB SSD Samsung laptop. The + switch was back to a 8GB RAM, i5 and 500GB HDD Dell laptop. The biggest + difference I noticed was on faster memory, both RAM availability and the + disk speed, but I had 250GB less local storage space. -[^3]: The declarative configuration aspect is something that I now - completely take for granted, and wouldn't consider using something - which isn't declarative. A good metric to show this is me realising - that I can't pinpoint the moment when I decided to switch to NixOS. - It's like I had a distant past when this wasn't true. +[^convinced-by-declarative-aspect]: The declarative configuration aspect is + something that I now completely take for granted, and wouldn't consider + using something which isn't declarative. A good metric to show this is me + realising that I can't pinpoint the moment when I decided to switch to + NixOS. It's like I had a distant past when this wasn't true. |