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  • In the same way however nebula could decide to switch to proprietary licenses and discontinue their open source offerings.

    Sure but you’d still have whatever the last commit was to nebula under the MIT license. It can be forked etc etc.

    I am sure headscale is great, but its a side project and if so inclined (not saying they are, tailscale seem quite generous), they could kill it a lot faster than Defined Networking could kill nebula. But its all a gamble.


  • I think nebula is really cool and am heavily considering it in production.

    Having a paid-for service that makes things easier is a good way to keep money going into the project, I think. And it feels a lot safer in terms of rug pull than tailscale/headscale. The android apps not being in fdroid and have some other limitations sucks… but I feel like those are easier to solve than some other issues that could be there.

    If you want tailscale, but not tailscale, check out netbird. You can self host the auth server and it isn’t some side project, the whole auth server is open.







  • Replaces the Archwiki with basically 0 docs

    Arch wiki is still relevant, I still use it as a reference on my NixOS box.

    a large chunk of your Linux knowledge no longer applies

    Your pacman and pacur (or whatever the name of the air helper soup de jour is this week) will no longer apply. Most of my linux knowledge was still applicable. You have all the same programs that run in the same way as they do on arch.

    you can’t compile from source

    Sure you can. Want to compile everything from source? Just turn off using the cache. NixOS is a source based distro.

    everything is different

    Also no. I use the same programs I can get on most other distros.

    the nix language kinda sucks until you “get” it, etc.

    If you have ever used another functional language its fine.