Today this cat sees if all the hype around NixOS is worth a hill of beans, or not.
#linux #coding
Discussion
I gave up lol
me too
Initial installation has been easy. What made you give up?
for me it was the whole worlflow. after 25yrs of linux, I couldn't make the switch in my head. don't miss nixos coz using nix when needed in fedora.
Just the steep learning curve for things that’re otherwise simple. Won’t make the time to dedicate learning how to functionalize everything since I won’t regularly use it. Setting up nix-bitcoin was a bitch & I never even fully finished
Exactly, a whole new language to learn, on top of the 20 we already learned in the last 20 years. Language builders just don't get cognitive load.
Im still wondering what the hype is. 😅
It looks pretty sweet but I'm sticking to Pop OS while their power management actually works and almost every other hardware I can't suspend and wake up my pc properly.
Most likely when I get back to my comfort zone with a big desktop box I'll go to nix.
The only thing that annoys me is it sorta seems like they invented yet another language to specify packages instead of adapting something existing, one man can only make use of a limited number of different languages at once, goddammit.
