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NixOS isn’t easy to use. It’s very powerful though. It gives you the ability to configure your whole OS, including all of your packages and configurations, in o

• downerending 7y ago
  It does sound pretty awesome. Maybe I'll try a hit with VirtualBox.
  • sjagoe 7y ago
    I tried that initially but never spent enough time using it in a VM to really learn it. In the end, I just decided to take the plunge and set it up as my main OS after a year of procrastinating around trying it out. I've been using it for about 4 years now, and wouldn't go back to a traditional distro. And finally, 4 years on, I just set up a new laptop and it was much easier than its ever been before. I just had to copy over my existing nix config, and nix built out the whole configuration and my user environment (with home-manager [0]). It's always been a bit of a pain setting up my profile before this, and maintaining my .emacs.d, etc; now it's all managed. [0] https://github.com/rycee/home-manager https://github.com/rycee/home-manager
• nialv7 7y ago
  > in one declarative file Which is not always up to date, and exposes all the available options. I found myself often need to dig into nixpkgs and add missing options myself during the time I was trying out NixOS. And believe me, that wasn't a pleasant experience.
  • takeda 7y ago
    Not sure if it was available when you tried, but this is useful when configuring, it is processed from nixpkgs and indexes all options that are available: https://nixos.org/nixos/options.html https://nixos.org/nixos/options.html
• rudolph9 7y ago
  What he said.