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> I wish the next generation of linux has a single package manager :( Package management used to be my biggest frustration with computers. A couple years ago,
by smilliken 10y ago
> I wish the next generation of linux has a single package manager :(
Package management used to be my biggest frustration with computers. A couple years ago, I switched to nix [1][2] and now use it across all my unix-like systems (not sure how well it works on Windows, I haven't tried). Most under-rated piece of software I use, I'm surprised it hasn't blown up yet.
[1] http://nixos.org/nix/ http://nixos.org/nix/
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10714102 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10714102
- sandGorgon 10y agoi have the greatest of respect for nix and 0install - however its an inexorable fact that I would like a mainstream, fully supported OS on my desktop - which is either Fedora or Ubuntu. Let me flip this question - what does nix have that snap or flatpak does not ? From what I have read, they are pretty much the same.
- smilliken 10y agoI run Ubuntu primarily, and forgo apt-get in favor of nix. I've never run NixOS before (some day..). I haven't used flatpak or snap before, but the comment I linked outlines a lot of the benefits I see with nix. Conceptually it's more like Make + a package manager, if Make were a (well designed) pure functional language and wasn't afflicted with grotesque generated code.