The article advocates for NixOS as an excellent operating system for home labs, highlighting its declarative configuration approach, reproducibility, and immutability. It provides a step-by-step guide on installing NixOS in Proxmox, including addressing potential UEFI boot issues. It also explains how to configure and update NixOS, and discusses its strengths and weaknesses compared to other distributions. Finally, it introduces NixOS Anywhere as a tool for automated deployment.
An anonymous open letter led to a fork of the Nix project, but it failed to address the technical issues with Nix packaging. The community remains fragmented.
