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I hear a lot of chatter about nix. What do you use it for and how is it working out for you?

• jordanbeiber 8y ago
  Personally I really like having the whole system configuration declared and checked in to vcs. The way packages are like functions in the nix code repo gives you at least fair confidence that things will actually work as intended. Or at the very least it gives you insight into why it doesn’t. More so compared to a traditional deb/rpm distro in my experience. Not saying it’s perfect by any means, just that it has worked brilliant for a few small projects of mine involving some pi’s. At the workplace though, resistance is high amongst my traditionalist RH/centos co-workers. :)
  • m45t3r 8y ago
    Pretty much what @jordanbeiber described. I recently had to change my work's notebook. Since my NixOS configuration was commited in my dotfiles, I simply restored my NixOS configuration and $HOME and everything was working like the old notebook. Also, bugfix for strange behaviors are written in my NixOS files, so it is like NixOS is my own personal distro.
    • fxfan 8y ago
      One of my pain points with Linux is that every newly installed software thinks its okay to add new fonts that "provide" for traditional ones like Arial. I hope I will find a way to change that in nix but I'm wondering if I go change that in /etc/ and repeat for all machines or I can somehow do it in nix conf