• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I’d been hearing a lot about NixOS so I did a VM install. It wanted me to setup my own partitions manually without even giving preset sane defaults like I was back in 1994 installing Slackware.

    Nope. My OS is a tool, not a lifestyle.

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      4 months ago

      This is the opposite of me. I always get nervous when I don’t have precise control over how the disk layout looks. I explicitly decided for the non-graphical installer when I first downloaded NixOS

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      4 months ago

      The obvious sane default is 1 partition covering the whole disk, + EFI system partition. What’s there to offer…

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        4 months ago

        Encryption? Also you’re assuming there’s only one block device…

        assuming the person before did not just mean partitioning, but also all other storage-related tasks