dude, I learned and used NixOS for 2 years and I found it incredibly challenging as some of the documentation is fragmented to the point where you have to delve into several hundreds of others configurations to fix singular problems. Some issues are actually impossible to solve (unless you have months of time off and proficiency with Nix) as NixOS is not FHS compliant.
In addition, good luck with finding what you want as sometimes it’s unsearchable as the devs decided not to distinguish the 3 from each other.
Why? I have no idea.
I haven’t even mentioned Nix Flakes which is it’s own level of complexity due to it’s experimental but recommended status by the community.
Perhaps it’s a skill issue but I feel that I’ve spent my 2 years of due diligence to know that it’s still quite rough on the edges.
At this point I’m personally moving back to Arch.
I’ll be experimenting with Gentoo sometime in the near future but at this point it’s very unlikely I’ll ever revisit Nix and NixOS especially since Valve is doing fantastic work in collaboaration with the Arch Linux devs.
For all I’ve said above
Because reading the docs is too hard for an imbecile?
Please reconsider before posting future antagonistic and abbrasive comments as it does no favors to you nor the community and only paints a target on your back👍
Nix and NixOS are not easy beasts to tame as advanced help is sparce and individual challenges can be quite niche such that help cannot be readily found.
I’ve been using Nix for well over a decade and yes it’s fucking hard, sometimes. But when it’s hard it’s usually solvable by using the repl so you can actually see what’s happening.
I agree completely, I still think that for some things Nix is the most convenient thing, e.g. when packaging cross-compiled images of the apps, but I would never be able to build this from ground up, and whenever something breaks it’s a pain to fix. Using NixOS on Mac at least taught me how it works more or less, and it mostly does except for when it doesn’t and I’m in it deep
My personal nixos config
dude, I learned and used NixOS for 2 years and I found it incredibly challenging as some of the documentation is fragmented to the point where you have to delve into several hundreds of others configurations to fix singular problems. Some issues are actually impossible to solve (unless you have months of time off and proficiency with Nix) as NixOS is not FHS compliant.
In addition, good luck with finding what you want as sometimes it’s unsearchable as the devs decided not to distinguish the 3 from each other.
Why? I have no idea.
I haven’t even mentioned Nix Flakes which is it’s own level of complexity due to it’s experimental but recommended status by the community.
Perhaps it’s a skill issue but I feel that I’ve spent my 2 years of due diligence to know that it’s still quite rough on the edges.
At this point I’m personally moving back to Arch.
I’ll be experimenting with Gentoo sometime in the near future but at this point it’s very unlikely I’ll ever revisit Nix and NixOS especially since Valve is doing fantastic work in collaboaration with the Arch Linux devs.
For all I’ve said above
Please reconsider before posting future antagonistic and abbrasive comments as it does no favors to you nor the community and only paints a target on your back👍
Nix and NixOS are not easy beasts to tame as advanced help is sparce and individual challenges can be quite niche such that help cannot be readily found.
I’ve been using Nix for well over a decade and yes it’s fucking hard, sometimes. But when it’s hard it’s usually solvable by using the repl so you can actually see what’s happening.
## Windows emulator. bottles wine winetricksWine Is Not an Emulator! 😀
I agree completely, I still think that for some things Nix is the most convenient thing, e.g. when packaging cross-compiled images of the apps, but I would never be able to build this from ground up, and whenever something breaks it’s a pain to fix. Using NixOS on Mac at least taught me how it works more or less, and it mostly does except for when it doesn’t and I’m in it deep