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NixOS is the best operating system I absolutely cannot recommend to anyone - Anurag Singh (www.xda-developers.com)

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[–] Oinks@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Do you have some specific threads in mind? Maybe I'm lucky to never click on the bad ones but my experience is that nobody is more cynical regarding Nix/NixOS jank than the long time NixOS users. You might not always get the answer you want, because it is very jank and doing some things will get you into trouble. But people pointing that out isn't the same thing as gaslighting.

Guix SD might be worth a look, it seems to be just straight up better in many technical regards. It has no flakes, comprehensive documentation and a blessed way to manage user homes. As long as you don't really need WiFi of course...

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

At least as long as you don't really need WiFi of course...

Hey, now – the NonGuix repo. exists!

For those unfamiliar, it contains software with proprietary elements that otherwise can't make it into the Guix software repository, à la non-free for Debian.

You can get the normal Linux kernel and all the hardware compatibility you'd typically expect easily through NonGuix.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 50 minutes ago

For some reason, stuff like libre wolf isn't in the guix repo. Not even Firefox. It's very confusing.

[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago

I'm using GuixSD on my desktop, and while I think it's better in terms of creating stuff that doesn't already exist in upstream repos, there's so much functionality missing that's present in nixpkgs and random flakes online that for the average person complaining about Nix jank it's very likely not worth the effort. On the bright side they released 1.5 recently so you no longer have to use a 3 year old image (that likely doesn't work right if your computer is too new) or a nightly one to get things running.