Why I'm Leaving NixOS After a Year?
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Around a year ago, I published a blog post explaining my overall experience Switching from Arch to NixOS. You can read it if you’re interested in my early experiences, but, to give you a spoiler, that post ends with me saying: Unfortunately, though, I don’t think the benefits I’ve gotten in this one month of using NixOS so far justified the cost I’ve initially spent and continue to spend learning Nix and NixOS. — Ultimately, whether the benefits of learning a particular technology outweigh the costs depends on how much you take full advantage of its features. So, I believe that if I experiment with more setups, try different programs, or start managing servers with Nix, I will begin to see a better return on this investment from what I have learned so far. :)
    • recursive_recursion@piefed.caEnglish
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      7 months ago

      My personal nixos config

      dude, I learned and used NixOS for 2 years and I found it incredibly challenging as some of the documentation is fragmented to the point where you have to delve into several hundreds of others configurations to fix singular problems. Some issues are actually impossible to solve (unless you have months of time off and proficiency with Nix) as NixOS is not FHS compliant.

      The langauge Nix is not Nix the package manager, Nix is NixOS the OS.

      In addition, good luck with finding what you want as sometimes it’s unsearchable as the devs decided not to distinguish the 3 from each other.
      Why? I have no idea.

      I haven’t even mentioned Nix Flakes which is it’s own level of complexity due to it’s experimental but recommended status by the community.

      Perhaps it’s a skill issue but I feel that I’ve spent my 2 years of due diligence to know that it’s still quite rough on the edges.

      At this point I’m personally moving back to Arch.
      I’ll be experimenting with Gentoo sometime in the near future but at this point it’s very unlikely I’ll ever revisit Nix and NixOS especially since Valve is doing fantastic work in collaboaration with the Arch Linux devs.

      For all I’ve said above

      Because reading the docs is too hard for an imbecile?

      Please reconsider before posting future antagonistic and abbrasive comments as it does no favors to you nor the community and only paints a target on your back👍

      Nix and NixOS are not easy beasts to tame as advanced help is sparce and individual challenges can be quite niche such that help cannot be readily found.