Hi everyone!

I saw that NixOS is getting popularity recently. I really have no idea why and how this OS works. Can you guys help me understanding all of this ?

Thanks !

  • Leaflet@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • PainInTheAES@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Yup, I did the same thing. I really wanted to make it work but I think it just needs some time to mature. Once it has some clean documentation and polishing it’ll be really cool.

      I really liked how NixOS has a hardware config repo. I have a Framework, used the config, and everything just worked. I mean it usually does on other distros too but it’s nice to know that if there’s a config it’ll be guaranteed to work.

      I’m currently really enjoying kinoite. I think it also has some documentation issues but it’s also not as radically different from your average distro as NixOS…