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It's pretty easy if you use NixOS :) That's been one of the somewhat unexpected benefits for me with NixOS: it's so easy to pull in tools and libraries that I
by tikhonj 3y ago
It's pretty easy if you use NixOS :)
That's been one of the somewhat unexpected benefits for me with NixOS: it's so easy to pull in tools and libraries that I don't have to worry about using less popular options.
- aliasxneo 3y agoThe caveat is that you're pushing the complexity somewhere else. I'm finally moving away from NixOS this month (after two years of using it) because I'm tired of edge casing interrupting my daily flow.
- crotchfire 3y agoAre you kidding? Half of NixOS is written in bash. Nixpkgs is just Nix used as a metalanguage for splicing together bash object language programs. Guix is what it looks like when you really get away from bash -- they use scheme as both the metalanguage and the object language.