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ruffsl Jan 31

NixOS is the best operating system I absolutely cannot recommend to anyone - Anurag Singh

https://programming.dev/post/44972879

NixOS is the best operating system I absolutely cannot recommend to anyone - Anurag Singh - programming.dev

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onlinepersona Jan 31

Damn right. And the Nixos community forums are full of people unwilling to accept this. They will gaslight you into thinking you’re the problem. “Just do this”, as I’d it’s completely obvious and you’re dumb for not realising that. Of course if they find out you have some ideological incompatibility with them, you’re out anyway.

NIXOS really needs a fork. One that embraces or rejects flakes outright. One that stops inviting ideological battles. And one that embraces documentation.

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PastelKeystone Feb 1

There are forks of Nix. Perhaps you might like Lix.

Lix

Lix is an independent variant of the Nix package manager, developed by a team of open-source volunteers, and maintained by and for a passionate community of users.

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onlinepersona

I haven’t yet found out where its major differences lie. And it seems like they haven’t taken a firm stance on flakes (yes or no). They also only forked the interpreter, not nixpkgs. A good step, but their documentation wasn’t good, the last time I checked.