Re:Nix: An idea whose time has come
by Jaepa on Saturday February 19, 2022 @02:30PM
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Oh I don't disagree. The onboarding experience is terrible.
* You have to learn a new and kind of knobbly single use language.
* If you are going the NixOS route there's the non-trival learning curve for that as well.
* And the package manager itself is more than a little confusing.
As for the workflow. I use NixOS on my personal machine. I'm fine with it because its typically pretty quick and happens infrequently. Buuuuuuut I wouldn't really advocate for NixOS. Its cool. I like it. I'm never going to recoop the time and effort I spent learning how to use it.
* You have to learn a new and kind of knobbly single use language. * If you are going the NixOS route there's the non-trival learning curve for that as well. * And the package manager itself is more than a little confusing.
As for the workflow. I use NixOS on my personal machine. I'm fine with it because its typically pretty quick and happens infrequently. Buuuuuuut I wouldn't really advocate for NixOS. Its cool. I like it. I'm never going to recoop the time and effort I spent learning how to use it.