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@eruwero@ieji.de I am not upset with NixOS BTW. Despite that Nix is not a Lisp, the difference is that Nix has a more complex syntax (which makes a Lisp-like macro system impractical--but check out the mixins in D: https://dlang.org/articles/mixin.html -- D is the only C derivative I kind of like).

I was able to set up an OpenVPN server with very little configuration.

I did a LOT of screaming at the screen along the way, but it was because there was so little documentation. I had to randomly find the best way.

Barry Schwartz 🫖

@chemoelectric@masto.ai

@eruwero@ieji.de Basically all I had to do was tell it to use nftables instead of iptables, and tell NixOS to do NAT for me.

I had been struggling with trying to get iptables and systemd (yuck! why can’t I just use ip route?) to do NAT and probably NixOS was trying to stop me from succeeding. :)

I have this server running on a mini PC with fast Ethernet that I got just for the purpose. Now I do not have to use the garbagy OpenVPN server that is in my Netgear router.

eruwero
@eruwero@ieji.de

@chemoelectric@masto.ai the main reason I use guix instead of Nix is because it's one of the few fully free operating systems. Scheme as a configuration language is also great, I think it actually was what brought me to lisp. And that it doesn't use systemd is also a plus. But I'm sure Nix is great too, all the functional package management stuff is the same.