anyone have experience with nixOS? opinions?

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Just started using it. Close to potentially becoming my daily driver.

Steep learning curve compared to a standard Linux distro, but I love the declarative way of configuring a machine, that can "easily" be ported over to others with the assurance of running the same runtime.

that's what interests me about it too. declarative FTW

🤩 I'll keep you updated on my experiments...

Upgrading to the latest version this weekend... https://nixos.org/blog/announcements.html#nixos-22.11

I tried to install in at least 3 computers, maybe 4, over the last 5 years. never managed to get it running. I'm not a Linux specialist but at least I can install ArchLinux. I think I may have not tried with computers that were modern enough.

I did try to use nix, the package manager, twice over these years too, but it never survived enough because it tries to compile all the things from scratch for every little program we try to install, and that takes a lot of disk space and time. they should have an advice: "do not use in weak computers".

also I read the full nix manual but couldn't get used to writing nix derivations so I was feeling helpless when I couldn't write my custom things and that was frustrating.