thejevans , 5 hours ago (edited 3 hours ago)

I use NixOS on my workstations, and I’m slowly migrating many of my server VMs over to it.

NixOS w/flakes + home-manager + impermanence on zfs + disko w/ nixos-anywhere is amazing and gives an insane amount of declarative control over your system.

That said, the current state of the leadership gives me pause to recommend it to anyone, and I do have a few devil’s advocate responses to some of what you said:

Every package has its own dependencies, so you can install a 7 year old firefox alongside the latest, and have no interference.

Unless the dependency is Qt, then it better all be the same version.

Abandons the HFS, but can still fake it for apps that need it.

Using ldd and nix-alien to patch in dynamic libraries still sucks, and often doesn’t work without a lot of extra effort. If what I want isn’t in nixpkgs, and I can’t get nix-alien to work on the first try, I just end up not using whatever I was trying to run.