I tried NixOS because I needed to recreate an environment with a specific GCC version. It was absolute hell, you are likely looking back on your experience with

I tried NixOS because I needed to recreate an environment with a specific GCC version. It was absolute hell, you are likely looking back on your experience with rose colored glasses now that you know how things work. Even really really really basic shit was insane, here's an example: the whole system is built on hashes, and there is no consistent format for them! I was getting an error with hash A even though I explicitly requested hash B, and I couldn't figure out why. Turns out nix can't decide whether to use base32 or base64.... I also tried passing arguments to specify the GCC version in like 10 different ways, *that all failed silently*. Staying far far far away from Nix even though on paper I should love it. Edit: oh yeah and `nix shell` and `nix-shell` both exist and don't do the same thing