I'm using Void Linux and see no reason to move over to NixOS. The concept seems cool though.
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All I year about from the linux community is NixOS and btrfs, neither of which I have any interest in. It almost feels like someone with an agenda is promoting these two with how prevelant they are.
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They don’t know about Debian stable.
Answering that question fully would require a PHD thesis.
Perhaps you could narrow down your question a little?
I ran it in a VM for several months and was underwhelmed. Sticking with Fedora.
I'm really not sure of where this would be anymore usefull than a simple bash script to install all packages you need since it doesn't do configs and that rollbacks are supported by some filesystems already. Also Having version specific dependencies is already a thing for flatpacks and such
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I don't get the hype. I'm staying with Arch, as Nix seems to be mainly for developers.
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Hmm, I've never heard of NixOS. Is it suppose to be like blendOS or CurtainOS? A blend of different desktop environments?
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I don’t know NixOS. My Linux machine runs Pop_OS and Manjaro.
What are the pros and cons of NixOS ?
They're not but nixos users are REALLY loud, as in, they can't spend a single day without talking about it.
New Arch. Both still worse than Silverblue.
Agreed, Silverblue is great. I would love a declarative system, but Nix just doesn't make it easy with its sprawling documentation and mix of new and old parts. I was trying to follow a guide for Home Manager, but couldn't use it because they were using flakes, I was still on the "old" configuration.nix style.
You can't make all things declarative either. If I can only have things 50% declarative, it kinda defeats the point.
I also still tried to use flatpaks since nix doesn't have sandboxing and is slower on updates, but its font configuration was broken.
Nix overall feels like it's requires a lot of workarounds, moreso than Silverblue.
But hey, at least if I ever want to try it out again, I just need to copy in my configuration.nix and make things work from there.
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