Always wanted to try it out, although after quite some reading went for Guix. They both are more or less same design. The package manager is so powerful it seems like cheating.
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What makes it more powerful than something like apt?
Each package creates a new generation of your operating system. One of the heaviest pains in using a rolling distro is that one day some core part of your system comes crashing down. You can roll back to previous version on a whim.
Each user has it's own manager, so you can have multiple versions of a same library. It is not containerized software (docker), so you do get those native speeds. Biggest problem is the disk space use, since unless no one uses a package, you can't garbage collect it.
Other beauty is since the installation is based on a config file it's trivial to have the full setup on multiple devices. (Much easier than hand rolled installation shell script)
Cool, that sounds really useful! I might have to try it out.
Seems like a good Linux disrro for VPS/self hosted. I like my Debian with lxde for my desktops.
nixos is amazing! If you want, you can fork my flake/home-manager based config here to get up and running quickly with a fairly full-featured config. Of course, I stood on the shoulders of giants to get where my config is today.
Why is it amazing? Trying to decide on a distro.
can we stop the nixos spam pls?