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I have exactly same problem using Nix package manager in Ubuntu. That's why for those other 5% you can usr usehomebrew or whatever other package manager you hav

I have exactly same problem using Nix package manager in Ubuntu. That's why for those other 5% you can usr usehomebrew or whatever other package manager you have in your system. I am not sure what is the story of having NixOS as a server, but would not suggest to have it as a main OS. There a sometime cases when there are simply no package you want to install, or you install it but some functionality doesn't work. Yes, maybe one can fix/patch, but I simply fall back to apt-get in such cases, and don't spend my time on that. Usually I have problems like this with GUI application, ie: installed pdf editor, which can open pdf, but can highliting functionality doesn't work and the crashes.

rgoulter 4y ago
> I am not sure what is the story of having NixOS as a server, but would not suggest to have it as a main OS This was what I thought when I was learning nix. Once I used NixOS, I realised it's not quite that difficult. -- The two big differences: 1. Roughly, you only really need to care about the NixOS config about as frequently as you'd change system files in /etc/ in other Linux distributions. 2. Some programs (e.g. minikube) will download a binary automatically, and this doesn't work well with NixOS. I've seen tools like distrobox https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox recommended as backups on NixOS, as well as the usual Docker / VMs. I secretly suspect some of the reason NixOS is popular is it's less trouble than nix on non-NixOS. Whereas, nix on macOS, I've sometimes mixed compilers/libraries, which leads to difficult to discern problems.