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Is there a programming specific distro? (programming.dev)

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I know there choice of distro is really meaningless as you can install almost any program on almost any distro. But I have been playing with kali which is for security people and pen testers. Is there a similar distro for programmers? Like a few ides installed some profiling tools some virtual environment tools etc?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

NixOS. It's really good for building multiple discrete environments specific to a development project, and it's done via a functional declarative language that's right up a programmer's alley. You can specify everything precisely to what you want for that environment including all dependencies and not have them pollute each other when you switch builds.

But it's a steep learning curve and the documentation could be better, but it's probably fine if you're used to learning new languages.

https://dev.to/dinex-dev/getting-started-with-nixos-flakes-a-modern-approach-to-configuration-management-39p7