@rperezrosario I use NixOS and I'm still voting Debian lol.

This is a real question I ask myself every day. Kinda tempted to hop to Debian, but I maintain some nix stuff and its just so darn convenient to use nix.

I feel like Debian is a nice farm upstate that I will, eventually, retire to.

@abmurrow @rperezrosario I deal with debian packaging tooling at work, and the more I do so, the less I want to deal with debian in my own free time.

Nix and nix(pkgs) documentation are absolutely great compared to the mess around dpkg/apt/debhelper/lintian/different debhelper modules.

@ar @abmurrow @rperezrosario

I tried nixOS back in 2023 and it was still too raw for me to use as my primary OS.

The nix scripting language also seemed a bit inelegant.

Then there was the matter of having any given application available as a nix(pkg).

Looking now, the website looks slick, and it looks like nixOS has matured and stabilized. So I am thinking of giving it another go.

What is your feeling on the current state of nix? Especially, the nix pkg selection?

@purrperl @ar @abmurrow @rperezrosario

As a Nix user since 2020ish, package selection is bigger than ever, both literally in terms of having everything I want, and numerically; with more than Arch + AUR.

The language is largely unchanged, and the learning curve is still quite rough.

If you can get used to the language though it's a solid way to manage an OS though.