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Is anyone using NixOS as their daily driver? (ymmel.nl)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm currently running Arch and it's great, but I'm noticing I'm not staying on the ball in regards to updates. I've been reading a bit about Nix and NixOS and thinking of trying it as my daily driver. I've got a Lenovo x1 xtreme laptop, I don't do much gaming (except OSRS), use firefox, jetbrains stuff, bitwarden, remmina, obsidian, and docker.

Is anyone running NixOS as their daily? How are you liking it and are there any pitfalls / stuff you wish you knew before?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

as long as the existing packages are enough*, it's really good. if you need to start packaging stuff yourself this is when you'll usually start hitting the pain points (of both Nix the language and the documentation)

*: nixpkgs does have a huge number of packages but that count is massively over-inflated by essentially being a meta-repo that also contains all the language-specific dependencies of it's packages (think pip or npm) and mostly-auto-generated vim plugin packages and whatnot. for things you'd actually want to install "manually" the breadth of the AUR still trumps it in my experience

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

I recently played with the AUR on Debian using Distrobox, could that be used on NixOS too?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

When I experimented around with NixOS, I never got a chance to play around with Distrobox specifically - however I did use Podman with no issue, which is what Distrobox uses behind the scenes so I suspect it should work.

There's also a Distrobox package in Nixpkgs which further affirms my belief in that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Is it, though?

https://repology.org/repositories/statistics/nonunique

Nonunique means other package managers have it, so it excludes those you said that inflate the user count