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Why everyone is switching to NixOS ? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi everyone!

I saw that NixOS is getting popularity recently. I really have no idea why and how this OS works. Can you guys help me understanding all of this ?

Thanks !

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Because it’s the latest Cool Nerd Thing™ like Arch before it, and Gentoo before that. Most of the people raving about it probably don’t have much use for its features.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

The features themselves are very useful for basically any user. Whether they are worth the non-standardness and issues that come with it is another question.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm using GNU Guix System which is similar to NixOS and I think I can safely say I do appreciate Guix's features that set it apart from a traditional GNU/Linux distro or package manager.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Solution without a problem. A cool solution but yeah.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I don't think that's accurate, personally.

Declarative orchestration systems have been around for years and have a very real use case when needing to stand up servers in a replicable way. Nix is applying that approach at the system level.

I'm not entirely sold on wanting to put that level of effort into a personal desktop, but I don't think it's at all fair to say that it's not addressing real problems.