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(I want to love Nix, but it’s so foreign. I do hope it becomes more of a standard. It’s just hard to learn and hard to use until you learn.)
by sillysaurusx 4y ago
(I want to love Nix, but it’s so foreign. I do hope it becomes more of a standard. It’s just hard to learn and hard to use until you learn.)
- rgoulter 4y agoI'd prefer to qualify that a bit: When you can get Nix to do what you want, it's wonderful. When you hit a barrier (e.g. a program you want isn't packaged), that's when Nix is very hard to use, and requires learning.
- ilc 4y agoI went over to Nix cold turkey for my new work laptop. Took about a week or two, to get it where I wanted it. The real issue I hit is that Nix is so alien to working with "normal" unix stuff... like stuff that assumes /usr/bin/grep exists etc, I had issues, with the existing code-base I was hired to work on. So, I went back to Fedora. But I'd goto Nix again in a heartbeat. It is a great system, and if you start a company with it day 1... there will be a bit of heartburn as you start, but I can't see regretting it.