• Mactan
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    11 year ago

    nix is like the i3 of package managers. does it work sure but you’ll spend your 80% of your time learning code and configuration to make your sick packaging rice /sarcasm

  • AItoothbrush
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    01 year ago

    This a plea for help: is there any other distro that does immutability like nix without the configurstion of nixos. I love nix but its just so complicated. When something breaks i spend half an hour just to fix some small problem because i have to get the config then rebuild then test, etc. Idk if i was the one making nixos how would i fix it tho. Also its too teminal based for most people.

    • AtemuOP
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      01 year ago

      There’s the WIP NixOS-based SnowflakeOS that aims to make NixOS approachable for mere mortals but that’s still declarative configuration and of course still NixOS under the hood.

      There’s a bunch of immutable distros out there that use OStree or some other imperatively managed snapshotting mechanism such as Fedora Silverblue or VanillaOS.

  • @allywilson@sopuli.xyz
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    -11 year ago

    Not going to lie, I think I lost interest after the 3rd reference to “Nix” and there being no guide as to whether it means Unix-like, Nix (the plan9 fork), NixOS (Linux distro), Nix (the package manager) or something referred to as “The Nix Language”

  • TheOPtimal
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    -11 year ago

    Guix is so good that it doesn’t need flakes