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Although other people have different opinions to me, I don't really see Nix as something for the desktop, but for development, deployment and server software it
by ris 9y ago
Although other people have different opinions to me, I don't really see Nix as something for the desktop, but for development, deployment and server software it's a killer solution for me.
- Filligree 9y agoNone of what he mentioned was desktop-specific. GPUs are useful, and if CUDA is involved then it's being used for acceleration of some kind, which can perfectly well be done on servers. I agree that Nix is hard to deal with when it comes to binary distributions of any kind, which includes CUDA.
- tome 9y ago> I agree that Nix is hard to deal with when it comes to binary distributions of any kind, which includes CUDA. That's really interesting to me. Why is a binary package not considered a source package where "compiling" it is a no-op?
- Filligree 9y agoIt's a problem of altering the embedded paths to point at the nix store. There are some tools for doing that -- patchelf, etc. -- but it's far more difficult to get all that right than to compile from source. A source package using autoconf will, in general, just work. A binary package always needs extra work.
- mbrock 9y agoExtremely happy user of NixOS on my laptop (Dell XPS) for 2.5 years chiming in to say that being able to share parameterized configuration modules between your laptop and your servers is ridiculously nice for a developer and admin!