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The point is that with NixOS you are in a much better boat then all other distributions. Because the chances that an application is working on NixOS compared to
by rowanG077 3y ago
The point is that with NixOS you are in a much better boat then all other distributions. Because the chances that an application is working on NixOS compared to $insert_distribution_here is much higher. I do agree that windows/OSX are superior here.
- dottedmag 3y agoThan all other _niche_ distributions. But that's not a very high baseline. I'd say it's abysmally low baseline. When I was using NixOS I regularely saw software that was tested on Ubuntu and Fedora and had installation instructions for these two distros, but was missing from Nixpkgs (because it was experimental, new or very obscure), and didn't work out of the box with NixOS' FHS.