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Re:My NixOS Desktop Flow by jml7c5 on Sunday April 26, 2020 @06:51AM (#22986194)
The default nixpkgs channel has over 40,000 packages. I've found NixOS compares pretty well with other Linux distributions in that regard.

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs

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Re:My NixOS Desktop Flow by Shoue on Sunday April 26, 2020 @11:26AM (#22987807)
In fact, Nixpkgs is only second to Arch in quantity of packages. There was a period where Nixpkgs had more than Arch, even.
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