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Why many people are switching to NixOS ? (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by L0Wigh to c/[email protected]

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Hi everyone!

I saw that NixOS is getting popularity recently. I really have no idea why and how this OS works. Can you guys help me understanding all of this ?

Thanks !

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

SYMLINKS

SYMLINKS EVERYWHERE

(also 6000 packages intalled on my system for some reason lol)

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

Doesn't it have a garbage collector like guix does (guix gc), which cleans up everything in the store that isn't needed anymore?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yep, Nix-store -gc or some such will do something like this.

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

nix-collect-garbage I configured it to run every 7 days.

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

Well, Nix has a very liberal definition of a "package". Your web browser, its wrapper script, a service file, a config file; those are all technically "packages" (or "derivation" as Nix calls them).