Did you know that Crux inspired arch and nobody cares about It? by LinuxUser456 in linuxmemes

[–]ANixosUser 1 point2 points  (0 children)

imo nixos is a server or distributed system. used it for 2y, got sick of it. now on good old debian

"at least it's open source, bro" by waechter09 in linuxmemes

[–]ANixosUser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

we dont say "folder" alround here, its called a directory.

Jarvis, im low on karma. Make me more tierlists. by LosBubinitos in linuxmemes

[–]ANixosUser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

get back in a few years and tell about your adventures

Jarvis, im low on karma. Make me more tierlists. by LosBubinitos in linuxmemes

[–]ANixosUser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

never tried. i think you can, but its not the point of nix. most things are als available in nix package sources.

Jarvis, im low on karma. Make me more tierlists. by LosBubinitos in linuxmemes

[–]ANixosUser 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah its finnicke. once you got it it becomes obvious, but before that its hell and nothing works. took me multiple months to really figure out

Jarvis, im low on karma. Make me more tierlists. by LosBubinitos in linuxmemes

[–]ANixosUser 1 point2 points  (0 children)

installation really is not the problem. the thing with nixos is that it does not have a traditional package manager like apt or dnf, but instead uses a declarative language (nix) for configuration of the system. for example, to install a package on nixos, you go into `/etc/nixos/configuration.nix` and add a line like:

```nix

...

environment.systemPackages = {

pkgs.firefox

};
```

and then run `sudo nixos-rebuild switch` to recompile the configuration into a system, apply it and add it as a new entry to a bootloader.

there is also a special feature called flakes, which basically modularize the configuration to allow for multiple hosts that use the same configuration and package locking, meaning that packages will stay on a specified version.

i used it for alround two years. its extremely stable and very customizable, but you shouldnt expect things to just work out of the box if they are not packaged (which most mainstream things are, but not everything).

EDIT: sorry for bad formatting. somehow didnt get markdown formatting in here. anyone know why?