Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts

Re:Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts by yoyohello13 on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @11:25PM (#42707286)

After spending some time on NixOS I basically decided to hold off until flakes become official and the docs are written with them in mind. In the mean time I just run Arch with Nix home-manager and I'm happy.

I've developed enough good habits over the years that I don't get breakages, and home-manager allows me to easily sync my dotfiles across machines..

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Re:Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts by wesapien on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @03:44AM (#42708760)

What makes you reluctant from using flakes? I initially thought I'd never have a need for flakes but after spending an hour on YouTube and Googling, I converted to flakes.

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Re:Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts by yoyohello13 on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @10:52AM (#42712379)

Sorry I was unclear. I’m using flakes, but I don’t want to commit to using NixOS proper until flakes actually get blessed as ready for prod. And yes I know everyone says they are, but I won’t be convinced until the experimental flag comes off.

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Re:Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts by SuperSandro2000 on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @09:28AM (#42711124)

If you are using more than 2 channels than flakes are the natural progression.

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Re:Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts by nrabulinski on Thursday January 16, 2025 @12:39AM (#42721721)

If you’re afraid of the experimental status, there are plethora of pinning solutions other than flakes which work with NixOS today and will continue working until roughly the end of time

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