Yes, it's the most stable yet infuriating experience I've ever had with Linux. I'm currently using it, but I don't know for how much longer...
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I've been tempted by Guix
How unstable is the unstable branch exactly?
Definitely more stable than Arch. Plus, you can easily roll back if something breaks, and you can choose which packages should use the unstable branch while keeping the overall system stable, which I find amazing. I don't think I've ever had a breaking update, which I can't say about Arch.
The problem I have with Nix is that you can effectively forget about running random programs or GitHub projects. You either package everything the Nix way or nothing works. As a developer and someone who often likes to try stuff out, that's really annoying. And Nix, the language, is ass, so is the whole build system. Nobody can convince me otherwise.
I agree with this, not being able to install things globally or use other package managers like pip was really annoying. I didnβt spend that much time with it to be honest, but just simply trying to set up a dev environment wasnβt fun. Also Iβm pretty sure elixir doesnβt work on nix at least when I tried it
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You should say "unstable channel". It's literally just a rolling release that pulls from the nixpkgs master branch. So it's only as stable as it needs to be to pass the Hydra CI tests.
And if you get to a working version, you can pin that as a Nix flake to avoid anything breaking until the next time you nix flake update.
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Is this a greek culinary specialty? "You have to try the Nixos, it melts in the mouth!"
Yep, running on 2010 laptop. works great.
Tis fairly good, don't like how badly it works with grub tho (which I refuse to change)
This makes arch/nixos a difficult combo to set up
Does it? I have two VMs on remote VPS servers that use GRUB because of no UEFI and I had no issues
Might be cause the PC in question I'm testing on does have uefi,(which nixos recommends system senior loader for)
My argument for using it is: it works very well for every other Linux distro, so it should work well with nixos too, uefi or not
I love the nix package manager on fedora atomic
I'm more interested in Mint 22
LMNE: Linux Mint Nix Edition
...hmm
nah i am happy with my kde neon
I use the Nix packmani in debian like yay on arch.