FWIW, I’m running NixOS but gave up on running the Lemmy module. I gave up when I realized that Lemmy seems to need superuser access to the Postgresql server, to install plugins or whatever.
So instead, I used Arion to make a docker-compose image, running in podman. Works great so far.
I have not read the full docs on setting up lemmy yet. But i don’t think it matters what distro you use as long as the distro can run docker. So setup docker and from their it is the same for any distro.
If someone is using NixOS, they would prefer native support. It’s easier to set up than Docker and fully integrated with the rest of their system’s configuration. Though NixOS also supports declaring OCI containers (with Docker or Podman) if needed.
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