I’ve been using NixOS for my laptop and servers for over a year and I’m totally obsessed with it. While I upvoted you for visibility, I wouldn’t really call NixOS obscure anymore. I’m constantly seeing it randomly mentioned in various distro-agnostic Linux spaces online lately.
Although it’s been seeing a lot of hype lately, I agree it’s still sort of niche and definitely not for everyone.
I can see where you’re coming from! Specifically this community though I’ve not seen it a lot - you’re completely right though, the more native one becomes the more one is confronted with it.
I’m still struggling with the slowness of things (e.g. a quick endpoint change) and I can’t get my head around reason error messages “fluently”, i.e. I have to think about what the errors want to tell me instead of resolving it - a bit like old python stuff really.
And then there are the edge cases … It took me a long time to change the config the very first time while offline - which makes sense from a model perspective but from my user brain it was just … wrong :D
Perhaps I should switch my clients as well to get more exposure…
NixOS has a lot of visibility, probably because the basic concept is so appealing to people who like to tinker with their OS. But its user base is still tiny.
I’ve been using NixOS for my laptop and servers for over a year and I’m totally obsessed with it. While I upvoted you for visibility, I wouldn’t really call NixOS obscure anymore. I’m constantly seeing it randomly mentioned in various distro-agnostic Linux spaces online lately.
Although it’s been seeing a lot of hype lately, I agree it’s still sort of niche and definitely not for everyone.
I can see where you’re coming from! Specifically this community though I’ve not seen it a lot - you’re completely right though, the more native one becomes the more one is confronted with it.
I’m still struggling with the slowness of things (e.g. a quick endpoint change) and I can’t get my head around reason error messages “fluently”, i.e. I have to think about what the errors want to tell me instead of resolving it - a bit like old python stuff really.
And then there are the edge cases … It took me a long time to change the config the very first time while offline - which makes sense from a model perspective but from my user brain it was just … wrong :D
Perhaps I should switch my clients as well to get more exposure…
NixOS has a lot of visibility, probably because the basic concept is so appealing to people who like to tinker with their OS. But its user base is still tiny.