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Everything I've heard about NixOS...well, it sucks. Sorry. The ideas behind it are interesting. The reality of living with it, the benefits are basically minim
by dangus 7mo ago
Everything I've heard about NixOS...well, it sucks. Sorry.
The ideas behind it are interesting. The reality of living with it, the benefits are basically minimal/none and you have to learn a whole big thing that isn't applicable anywhere else.
In the container era it makes even less sense.
- nylonstrung 7mo ago> the benefits are basically minimal/none Sounds like you've never used it. I've daily driven it for ~2 years and would never go back It works great with containers, you can use Nix to build extremely lean OCI images. Mercury uses it this way- the book NixOS in production discusses it
- dangus 7mo agoJust seems like it’s a solution for a problem I don’t have. I have to learn a whole new language that’s only used for NixOS just to do things I already have no difficulty doing with existing tooling. I enthusiastically say, no, I’ve never used it, because, like I said, having that kind of learning curve just to set up an OS is kind of insane. Doesn’t matter if it’s the greatest thing since sliced bread.