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    Have you tried NixOS? (lemmy.ml)
    submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes
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    [–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Yes. And I feel sad because I haven't been excited on any other OS for years after learning NixOS. I used to be excited about playing with things like FreeBSD, but now they all feel like something's missing...

    Not for everybody, but as a software engineer nix/nixos is blessing.

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Its especially annoying for me because i wanna go back to something that "just works" but i miss the nix features. I like declaring my system but managing packages declaratively is just such a pain. I just wanna do apt-get install package its just easier i dont want to rebuild my whole ass system. Something i found that may work is using nix for the system and then distrobox for packages. Yall think thats something that would work well?

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

    Can't you just do the package install via nix-env rather than the config file

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

    Separate your system and user lists. Use home-manager for example for your user packages. I think separating those configs is the official recommendation.

    As for the rest, I'm using nix on MX because of declarative package management. Screw going back to imperative and having to remember what packages to install. If it's something I use often it goes on a list, if I don't nix shell comes to the rescue.

    I'd rather mess around with dev envs for nix than distrobox.

    [–] iopq 3 points 3 months ago

    Just install it to your profile

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

    Same, I could not go back now.