Re:What is Nix and why you should try it
by mrkgnao on Monday October 16, 2017 @01:54AM
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I used Arch Linux for a while (~3 years) before making the jump to NixOS.
Many things I got from AUR packages are binary-cached in stable Nixpkgs, not to mention "compilers" (GCC, clang, and various versions of GHC in my case). I don't know when you last tried it out, but binary availability isn't a problem now if you'd like to give NixOS a spin. The only thing I build from source is polybar[0].
Many things I got from AUR packages are binary-cached in stable Nixpkgs, not to mention "compilers" (GCC, clang, and various versions of GHC in my case). I don't know when you last tried it out, but binary availability isn't a problem now if you'd like to give NixOS a spin. The only thing I build from source is polybar[0].
[0]: https://github.com/jaagr/polybar