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The Linux Experiment - NIX OS: the best package manager on the most solid Linux distribution (www.youtube.com)
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Seems like this distro is getting a lot of traction recently. Has anyone tried it? Is it any good?

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[–] polite_cat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd say it's a pretty steep curve unfortunately, and nixOS is also not perfect, mind you

  • The nix language (that is used for the configuration) itself has sometimes weird syntax. It's also a proper functional programming languages with all bells ans whistles that brings
  • The documentation is less than ideal (to put it mildley). Most of the times you need to search reddit (rip) and the forums to find how to do certain things.
  • Nix is not FHS compliant. Basically everything is a symlink to some file in the nix store, located in /nix. Packages installed with nix are patched to work that way, but things not installed with it might not run out of the box

As for trying it out, yeah copying the config from the vm should work (except for maybe some hardware-specific stuff). remember to backup your stuff just in case lol

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

It’s also a proper functional programming languages with all bells ans whistles that brings

It's really not. It has no runtime for starters; it's a pure expression language. It can't i.e. read stdin, open a socket or do an arbitrary syscall.

The end result is always data. You could and can turn every sensible evaluation of Nix into JSON.

There are indeed side-effects but they're indirect; implied by the data that is the actual end result of an evaluation of Nix expressions. If your expression evals to a derivation (data), Nix will create a .drv file for you for example. They're well defined and not arbitrary though.