I was using flakes. I gave the reason why it's data intensive. If a core dependency like glibc is updated, it's hash will change and all packages that depend on it need to be rebuilt and rehashed. It'll download all packages again even though there's minimal change.

Interesting! Any reason for this choice instead of doing everything through nix?

That's quite convincing :) I've been meaning to try gentoo for many years actually. I'll install it soon and report back!

Yep. I used the Xfce iso.

Thank you that makes sense. When I get my hands on a more powerful machine and have less data constraints, I'll try Nixos again. I do miss it sometimes 😆

A laptop with 8 GB of ram and 6 cores. I have only one machine that I use for work. That's the main issueI. Need to find a free weekend to compile and try out gentoo 😅

I'll try it sometime.

Yeah I guess so then all those that remain are the benefits of Nixos 👍

That's right. I just rely on intuition to create a snapshot just before I think some operation will potentially break the system. (Along with daily snapshots)

It's definitely not as bulletproof and transparent as Nixos. You can see what has changed by doing a diff :)

I definitely want to try out gentoo sometime. My system is not very powerful. I'm afraid it'll compile for many days 😅

I was just going off based on its history. It began based on gentoo. (Wikipedia) but yea it is independent now.

Yeah. For reproducibility I still use nix. Especially when I have to share my dev environment with a team or to spin up identical servers.