u/veldora_11

Hi everyone, I have a question about nixOS, specifically regarding battery consumption. In 2024, I bought a Samsung Book 4, which I thought was great since it was for computer engineering, studying, compiling, etc. With 16GB of RAM and a 13th Gen i7, it was going to be more than enough. I didn't like that Windows consumed 8GB of RAM, so I switched to Linux with EOS. I really liked Pacman and how easy it is to download various things from the AUR. Battery consumption had improved, but even so, sometimes it didn't last me the whole day (sometimes I'd start class at 8 AM and stay until 6:20 PM), and I'd have to charge it. I switched to vanilla Arch Linux, and while the battery consumption was somewhat lower, it wasn't by much. I realized the "problem" was systemd because of the background services, C-wakeups, etc. I learned about void and tried it on a secondary computer and I liked runit. Then I learned about artix and that it had different init systems and I liked dinit the most and that's what I'm currently using, artix with dinit.

Part of the reason I also switched from systemd was because I didn't really like the age verification, but I'm not refusing to use it.

So, my question is, how manageable is systemd in NixOS? According to AI, since NixOS is declarative, services are also declared, so when installing something, or during installation, it doesn't come with as many active services as, for example, EOS.

I don't mind learning the nix language; in fact, it's one of the things I enjoy. But I have a dual boot setup, and I don't like messing with the partitions too much, especially because Windows might get corrupted, and that would be bad. So I don't want the installation to be a waste, especially since I'd have to reinstall artix, and I don't want to.

Sorry for any spelling mistakes or inconsistencies, I'm Chilean and I'm learning English little by little; I can read better than I write. I already have it working; it hasn't broken or anything, but the dual boot setup was a bit of a struggle because GRUB wouldn't detect Windows, and then it would detect Windows but not artix until I finally managed to fix it.

Hola a todos, vengo con una consulta para cualquiera que esté dispuesto a responder. Estoy ya en segundo año de civil informatica en una U promedio, mi tema es que nose en que voy a querer especializarme, no me refiero específicamente a doctorado o magister, si no que especialidad con certificados, etc. Ahora mismo estoy haciendo una certificación por fuera de la U para probar areas de big data y areas de AI y pensaba que quizás para ir viendo distintas areas seria hacer cursos por fuera gratuitos y/o básicos para ir entrando mas o menos a distintas áreas y ver que me gusta, pero no se que tan bueno seria esto para un futuro y quería preguntar aquí ¿Cómo eligieron su especialidad? Solo llegaron a eso, se fueron preparando, terminaron una carrera, entraron al mundo laboral de IT y notaron que cosas le gustaba, etc. Agradecido de cualquier respuesta.