If you've hung out in Linux enthusiast circles lately, you'll have heard whispers that Arch Linux is no longer hot product. Instead, all the cool kids are using something called NixOS. Since I bricked my Debian setup in an unfortunate accident involving compiling from source, I decided to give NixOS …

Hey all, thought this might be of interest to some here.

Wrote about why I moved from NixOS to Ubuntu after using it for several months on my daily driver. Suspect that this take is likely to be kind of controversial and court claims of skill issues, which might even be true.

Let me know what you think.

  • Deckweiss@lemmy.world
    1·
    6 months ago

    tldr:

    • fucking with configs for hours regularly
    • pip & venv doesn’t work on nixos
    • DE broke when installed new DM
    • not much community support
    • mortalic@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 months ago

      I didn’t realize pip and venv didn’t work… that’s a pretty big deal breaker for a lot of people, myself included.

      • Faresh@lemmy.mlEnglish
        0·
        6 months ago

        I’m not a Nix user, but doesn’t Nix make both pip and venv obsolete in a way? Nix is a package manager (which could be used to package anything including Python packages/modules) and also allows you to create environments that include only certain packages of certain versions.

        • fd93@programming.devOP
          0·
          6 months ago

          Sounds good in theory, until you want to install scikit-image or other Python libraries which need complex builds.

          • Corbin@programming.devEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            python3Packages.scikit-image appears to be available and non-broken in nixpkgs; on my machine, I get /nix/store/w8681ncsw92cn4gq6gyraw4z19r0r6c3-python3.11-scikit-image-0.21.0. Do you have an actual example?

            I understand your point, but given nixpkgs’ position in the community, it might be a moot point.

  • IndustryStandard@lemmy.world
    01·
    6 months ago

    More serious than this is the rare occasions Nix packages conflict with each other. While Nix separates dependencies, it doesn’t separate them as absolutely as a full container system like Docker. Therefore it is possible, albeit unlikely, to end up with conflicts between versions of installed libraries.

    Never tried it but thanks for dispelling the hype. What a meme OS.