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> Anecdotally, I've tried to learn Nix for several years. Out of interest, what did you find difficult? I ask because I spent last weekend setting up NixOS, an
by Sean1708 8y ago
> Anecdotally, I've tried to learn Nix for several years.
Out of interest, what did you find difficult? I ask because I spent last weekend setting up NixOS, and the only things I found difficult were discoverability and documentation (I spent a lot of time just reading through the source code).
Edit: Thinking about it it's very possible that this is just a case of me not knowing what I don't know, since I'm not currently trying to do anything particularly complex.
- vesak 8y agoNot sure if this is exactly what you meant by discoverability, but this page helps with at least seeing what configuration options are available: https://nixos.org/nixos/options.html# https://nixos.org/nixos/options.html# -- no other distro has anything similar as far as I know. The language is not too bad, but how it should be used is the missing part. Like a cookbook or a properly populated Stack Overflow site. When I was on Linux, I liked to distro hop few times a year. Whenever I got back to NixOS, I felt that I had to relearn everything, and that there was nothing to grasp on to. I always take that as a bad smell.