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A single NACK from a stubborn fool kneecaps the entire project, and now the university gets to spend hundreds of thousands of euros upgrading the computer labs because the perfectly usable computers are juuuust barely outside Win11's requirements.\n\nSidebar: Back when I was a student at that same university, when Windows was small enough to allow dual-booting with Ubuntu from the same SSD, my Prog-1 teacher insisted on using [Joe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%27s_Own_Editor). He hated Vim, Emacs, and Nano with an equal passion.\n\n---\n\nEdit: Just to give some validation to the people who need it, I should point out that Nix would be the ideal OS. We use Clonezilla to deploy a painstakingly prepared golden image of Windows with all applications and configuration changes before every semester. If a teacher forgets to request a software (despite the five separate e-mails and posters around the university), we have to pray that it's available either as an MSI or through `winget`, otherwise we have to manually remote into each affected computer (up to several hundred) and install it one by one.\n\nI would give my left testicle and half my liver for the ability to have a centrally hosted Nix config file that can be edited whenever and then deployed as the computers come online.","removed":false,"published":"2025-10-04T09:35:23.975492Z","updated":"2025-10-04T12:09:24.814071Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.world/comment/19749592","local":false,"path":"0.18517003","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":853,"name":"rtxn","banned":false,"published":"2023-06-24T10:52:59.266990Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.world/u/rtxn","bio":"I take my shitposts very seriously.","local":false,"deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"instance_id":2},"post":{"id":34933174,"name":"Let's install Gentoo on all university computers.","url":"https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/1e59b003-08b3-43f1-a04a-bac9fe35f617.jpeg","body":"::: spoiler Original\n\n![](https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/ea7e5ce5-42e0-42c4-9067-ac81cd89bb10.jpeg)\n\n:::","creator_id":238641,"community_id":62,"removed":false,"locked":false,"published":"2025-10-04T06:50:20.504576Z","deleted":false,"nsfw":false,"thumbnail_url":"https://lemmings.world/pictrs/image/d264d882-bccc-4e80-b3f9-d75dd885c63f.jpeg","ap_id":"https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/46211850","local":false,"language_id":0,"featured_community":false,"featured_local":false,"url_content_type":"image/jpeg","alt_text":""},"community":{"id":62,"name":"linuxmemes","title":"linuxmemes","description":"Hint: `:q!`\n\n----\n\n\n::: spoiler Sister communities:\n* !tech_memes@lemmy.world\n* !memes@lemmy.world\n* !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world\n* !risa@startrek.website\n:::\n\n---\n\nCommunity rules (click to expand)\n:::spoiler 1. 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Install the OS, clone the config, rebuild, walk away and go to the next computer. 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The Prime Directive applies: we must not disrupt classes that are in progress or about to start unless they specifically ask for something.\n\nSupport for atomic updates is one feature that I won't compromise on, and while Ansible will definitely be part of the toolkit (on that note: fuck WinRM, all my homies hate WinRM), its idempotent model on its own is not enough to guarantee disruption-free deployments. If the process fails for any reason, the system must roll back to its last functional state. 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