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great answer, thanks

• logicprog 2y ago
  I'm glad you found it helpful instead of overwhelming! :D
  • rofrol 2y ago
    Maybe because I used nix, gentoo, exherbo, slackware etc. Also drawbacks for me when using nix: - I needed to greatly increase boot partiton, because nix stores there linux kernels. Whith dual-booting Windows, I created 2GB partiton at the end of disk. Thankfulluly Windows reused it. - vscode was having strange laggines on nix. - nix language is quite strange but also imo taught poorly. This was my attempt to demistify it https://github.com/rofrol/nix-for-javascript-developers https://github.com/rofrol/nix-for-javascript-developers. btw. nice remark about nix beeing declarative but beneath is Linux not-declarative. It is like functional programming, but you still have some internal state of components that can clash with your functional top-down approach.
    • logicprog 2y ago
      > btw. nice remark about nix beeing declarative but beneath is Linux not-declarative. It is like functional programming, but you still have some internal state of components that can clash with your functional top-down approach. Yeah. That's what always made me loathe to try it out. I'm glad there's someone else that feels that way.