So why should we use this instead of just saying lixmaballs and using nix/aux/nux/whatever other fork?
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in the currently evaluated year 2023 the battery accounts for 44.1 percent of breakdowns
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3-10 year old combustion cars vs electric cars only having enough registered models to start observing their reliability in 2021
Sega took that as a challenge
Prints a 10m scroll daily containing automated probes and attacks
Dude still hasn't decided where to host the repo. It's not an alternative, guix is...
Flying would be a very high demand service and could be sold for much more than what a train ticket costs. If it was feasible, it would have already been done.
- someone 150 years ago
Wait a bit Ubuntu is next. They already added terminal ads, embedded affiliate links for amazon, and sold user data to amazon.
Installs proprietary WiFi drivers on Debian
PROPRIETARY OS
Try it, the worst thing that can happen is you waste a few hours, get mad, break your PC, and get a brain aneurysm
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As you can see from the state of this thread, people see nix or nixpkgs but read nixos. There's no momentum from the community to push it as an extra package manager, while every thread is spammed with nixos.
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No gui integrations for casuals. For example Discover integrates flatpaks and snaps, but for nix you need to use the terminal.
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The documentation is abysmal. I spent days trying to figure out how to use nix as a declarative package manager before I accidentally came across home-manager. Even the manual leads you down the wrong path. A quick start guide with a few examples for home-manager and flakes, and a few basic commands, would've had me going in 5 minutes. That problem is made worse by the fact that almost all sources of info focus on nixos instead.
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if anyone's interested in trying it out, here's a part of my other comment in this thread
It's just a list of packages, and an optional flake to control the repositories (stable/unstable) and add packages from outside of the official ones.
To update everything nix related I just run:
cd ~/dotfiles/nix/ && nix flake update && home-manager switch
Flip and burn!!!