cally [he/they]Jan 25

My Linux distro tierlist

https://pawb.social/post/38655131

Show threadlefixxxJan 26
If you can handle nix why bother with other distros
Show threadcally [he/they]Jan 26
I can handle it but I wanted a more traditional package manager so I could search the repos from the command line without relying on external tools, so I went back to Void Linux after a year and a half of using NixOS.
Show threadlefixxx
you mean like nix shell -p tldr
Jan 26 at 7:34pmWeb
Show threadcally [he/they]Jan 26
I mean like apt search or pacman -Ss
Show threadPaulemeisterJan 26
I can recommend nh. Its a wrapper around the nix* commands and includes nh search, giving you a list of packages (not sure about nixos module options, I think not). It also uses nix-output-monitor giving you a nice dependency graph when building (plus downloads etc) as well as a diff between the current and new generation, with version changes, added, removed etc.
GitHub - nix-community/nh: Yet another Nix CLI helper. [Maintainers=@NotAShelf, @faukah]

Yet another Nix CLI helper. [Maintainers=@NotAShelf, @faukah] - nix-community/nh

GitHub
Show threadcally [he/they]Jan 27
It would have been nice to know about that, I already heard about it before but only after I’d switched to Void anyway. Maybe one day if I try NixOS again I will use it.