> for instance, the author always seemed to give up after 15 seconds of a command executing with not much explanation Because he recreates the experience of a

> for instance, the author always seemed to give up after 15 seconds of a command executing with not much explanation Because he recreates the experience of an average user who comes into nix. To quote, --- start quote --- nix-env invocations are too slow for anyone to reasonably use Nix as a package manager. Full stop. Every. Single. Command. 30 seconds. It was unbearable. I mean, it was nice for writing this blog post – plenty of time to get my thoughts down – but if I were an actual, normal user? Trying to use Nix? I would just stop. My Nix adventure would end before I finished running the first command. Because I would assume it was broken, ctrl-C outta there, and go back to using Homebrew (or pacman, or apt, or whatever). --- end quote ---