I'm using Void Linux and see no reason to move over to NixOS. The concept seems cool though.
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All I year about from the linux community is NixOS and btrfs, neither of which I have any interest in. It almost feels like someone with an agenda is promoting these two with how prevelant they are.
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It's been around for like a decade, but was recently make more approachable by offering a graphical installer.
I ran it in a VM for several months and was underwhelmed. Sticking with Fedora.
I switched around one and a half years ago. I must say, there are some hurdles to using NixOS. Mainly I dislike that it always takes around 20 times the effort to start and project. You make up for the initial time investment, because you end up with a far more stable setup, but still it does take some willpower to get things started.
I tried it about a year ago and I don't know it did not convince me. Yeah it might be great for some niche developer oriented needs or deployment but for a normal OS usage, meh. I kind of see it as a current hype, just like crypto/NFT before, and AI now. For normal everyday usage I find openSUSE Tumblweed much more suitable and much more widely applicable.
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because it's good as hell and i don't want to have to spend time having to rebuild and reconfigure fresh OS installs or risk breakage when I could just use a config file that I know already works
Answering that question fully would require a PHD thesis.
Perhaps you could narrow down your question a little?
I don't get the hype. I'm staying with Arch, as Nix seems to be mainly for developers.
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Overlays. Good package management, and lot of stability stuff.
Hmm, I've never heard of NixOS. Is it suppose to be like blendOS or CurtainOS? A blend of different desktop environments?
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