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SexyVetra ,

Don’t use NixOS.

Source:

  • I love NixOS
  • I use it as my daily driver on multiple machines.
  • I’ve contributed both to NixOS and surrounding ecosystem.

Evidence:

  • Learning cliff rather than curve because:
  • The state of the documentation should have been unacceptable a decade ago. Very unacceptable now.
  • The tooling is also over a decade behind.
  • Governance leaves a lot to be desired.

These things are getting better but not fast enough that I’d recommend it.

If you really want to look into nix, use it on another distro and see if you’re still interested after getting a flake-based devshell together. (impossible challenge: do it for a python project that relies on complex dependencies like transformers)

pinchcramp ,
@pinchcramp@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Governance leaves a lot to be desired.

Genuine question from somebody who’s out of the loop and doesn’t use NixOS: How does this affect your day to day using the distro?

vzq ,

Basically you hemorrhage contributors because fuck this shit and then core components get more and more behind.

JustMarkov OP ,

Don’t use NixOS.

I don’t like NixOS very much. This whole governance scandal has turned me away from it even more, tbh.

dinckelman ,

I’ve just switched my secondary machine to Nix, and was in the process of switching my main too, so it really is quite a shame. I’m really enjoying the distribution, but if the organization continues to have colossal government issues, and repelling active packagers, that’s really not a good sign

thejevans ,
@thejevans@lemmy.ml avatar

Now that I’m deep in it with flakes + home manager + impermanence + disko/nixos-anywhere, it’s fantastic having this much control and stability on all my systems, and I’m excited to start switching as much of my homelab as I can over to NixOS like my workstations.

But I totally agree, I would not recommend this to anyone who is not super interested in it.

prex ,

Guix? I’m ignorant of both but very nix curious.

pinchcramp ,
@pinchcramp@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I’ve heard good things about VanillaOS. Not used it myself though.

With their package manager apx, you can use software from pretty much any distro in VanillaOS (copied from link above):

Apx is a tool that allows you to generate work environments based on any Linux distribution and seamlessly integrates them with the system in a convenient way …

JustMarkov OP ,

Does it support any DE other than Gnome? For the rest, looks cool!

pinchcramp ,
@pinchcramp@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Does it support any DE other than Gnome? For the rest, looks cool!

Sadly, not officially (atm). I think you need to use a custom image and I don’t know how well those work.

See old.reddit.com/…/want_to_run_vanilla_os_but_no_gn…

JustMarkov OP ,

That’s a shame. I hope they’ll add support for more DEs in the future.

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