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Comprehensive comparison of Proxmox vs. NixOS #112

Open afparsons opened 2 months ago

afparsons commented 2 months ago

Nice project! After fiddling with Unraid, I'm exploring other options [reddit post], and I'm happy to have found the PMS wiki.

I'm vaguely familiar with Proxmox and NixOS, but I've never thought of them as fulfilling similar roles as the host OS on a home server.

In the PMS wiki, you briefly touch upon why you have moved from Proxmox to Nixos:

However, because the PMS wiki currently presents both as viable host OSes, it's a little hard to understand your rationale for choosing one over the other. With your latest adoption of NixOS, the wiki reads as quite unfinished and stuck in a transition state (totally understandable! Not a criticism!).

I'd imagine you are still experimenting and have not yet formed final conclusions. Nonetheless, I think a comprehensive comparison of Proxmox and NixOS would be extremely helpful.

Specifically, I would like to see:

Thanks for documenting your hobby project!