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How do you guys get software that is not in your distribution's repositories?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Nix is cool but also incredibly painful

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I use nix package manager on fedora silverblue. It's awesome.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Awesomely painful

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why is it painful for you?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

It just is overly complex. Nix has its own environment instead of just being a regular package manager.