• Integrate777@discuss.online
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    1 month 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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      1 month ago

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