I Hate GitHub Actions with Passion

Re:I Hate GitHub Actions with Passion by Storment33 on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @12:06PM (#46618703)

I use to have my Makefile call out and do `docker build ...` and `docker run ...` etc with a volume mount of the source code to manage and maintain tooling versions etc.

It works okay, better than a lot of other workflows I have seen. But it is a bit slow, a bit cumbersome(for langs like Go or Node.js that want to write to HOME) and I had some issues on my ARM Macbook about no ARM images etc.

I would recommend taking a look at Nix, it is what I switched to.

* It is faster. * Has access to more tools. * Works on ARM, X86 etc.

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Re:I Hate GitHub Actions with Passion by duskdozer on Thursday January 15, 2026 @01:43AM (#46628925)

You mean nix inside a container? Or what exactly?

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Re:I Hate GitHub Actions with Passion by Storment33 on Thursday January 15, 2026 @08:46AM (#46632463)

I replaced building/testing etc inside Docker containers to just using Nix.

* https://github.com/DeveloperC286/clean_git_history/commit/f8...

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