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Re:Migrate from Linux to FreeBSD by viraptor on Monday November 07, 2022 @05:37AM (#33504108)
> Several applications that were apparently built for Linux, so they did not compile on Freebsd (and no alternatives available).

There's a PR hopefully landing soon in nixpkgs to add freebsd building: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/82131

I was wondering if there's a builder at some point, it may improve the compatibility for the whole ecosystem. There's definitely a lot of fixes going upstream from darwin build failures.

Re:Migrate from Linux to FreeBSD by chillfox on Monday November 07, 2022 @11:56PM (#33515997)
Nix is cool tech, but really suffers from a lack of good docs. I tried to use it for dev environments, but it's a struggle and asdf just has the user experience nailed, so I abandoned nix and went with asdf instead.