"What I had been calling “Linux knowledge” was actually two different things bundled together: understanding of how systems work, and familiarity with where things live on a particular filesystem. The first transfers perfectly to NixOS. The second becomes largely irrelevant, and whilst that felt like a loss at first, I now think it is fine. Knowing that configuration files live under /etc is useful context, but it is not deep understanding. Deep understanding is knowing what the configuration does and why, and that knowledge is entirely portable."Particularly:
>> "familiarity with where things live on a particular filesystem."
Taken in context with mightyiam's quote:
>> "because I get to keep it, share it across multiple computers, "
It seems to me like a primary advantage of NixOS is that familiarity with where things live on your particular filesystem is made to be portable across machines, and not a constant beachead.
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