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I feel that one day I should write about this curse that NixOS brings into your life when you start enjoying it : you cannot go back to different systems but at
by rvdca 3y ago
I feel that one day I should write about this curse that NixOS brings into your life when you start enjoying it : you cannot go back to different systems but at the same time you (at least I) cannot vouch and recommend it to others as the languages and constructs (Flakes with a space or an utf-8 character in the path ? Here is a rabbit hole you can go down with) are just so byzantine and painful to work with but oh boy do they work... A crystal prison, nice but with sharp corners everywhere...
- paulddraper 3y agoThat's the problem ... So much time to a pleasing but inefficient payoff
- pxc 3y agoYou mean like this? https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/the-curse-of-nixos https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/the-curse-of-nixos You should still write your commentary on the idea, though!
- miniBill 3y agoThanks for the link! I definitely agree with the author, NixOS is the only system that does The Right Thing but I cannot recommend it to anyone. I mean, I technically have recommended it to one person, but he's an ex-Arch user so... does it really count? :D
- pxc 3y agoThere are definitely still many rough edges and sharp corners! For software developers and sysadmins with certain temperaments, though, I think it's definitely already a good fit. A lot of NixOS people come from Arch and Gentoo, and it works well for them— although Arch folks who are deeply aligned with its keep-it-simple philosophy are probably usually turned off by Nix.
- foota 3y agoHeh, I love a good dig at GCL.
- rhaps0dy 3y agoIt's the same as Emacs for me. I don't want to leave it but I don't recommend it to anyone.
- lovelyviking 3y agoWhy you don’t recommend it to anyone? May be a proper recommendation is what I need to really be engaged with it ? The same for Nix. Please more details about the practical benefits because I kind of see in general why it can be good but there is still certain lack of the real practical demonstrations from those who use it daily.
- LadyCailin 3y agoAre you kidding me? Who wouldn’t want to emulate an OS or play games directly from their text editor?
- Conscat 3y agoI'm loving Dunnet in Emacs. Nobody spoil me on how it ends, plz.
- dxhdr 3y agoTry out Doom! You don't have to use evil-mode either if that's not your thing (I don't use it), just disable :editor evil in your init.el. Personally I kind of view it like having a custom mechanical keyboard. Why not invest some time and money into making your tools more ergonomic and enjoyable? Yeah any keyboard will work, and any text editor will edit documents. Text-editing aside, magit and org-mode are particularly nice in Emacs. Plus there's just something comforting knowing that Emacs will always be there for me, just the way I set it up.
- TedDoesntTalk 3y ago> Why not invest some time and money into making your tools more ergonomic and enjoyable? Because unless you use just one system daily or even weekly, customizations are nothing an annoyance since it’s unlikely you can clone every customization across every system you use daily.
- vczf 3y agoFunny you mention spaces in flake paths. I was hit by that bug and bumped the PR to address it, and it might be getting merged in soon!
- nektro 3y agothere's always not using flakes
- toomanydoubts 3y agoOr even worst: when you cannot switch out of it but you're not smart to package proprietary software that's not available in the repositories.