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I might want to try some new Linux distribution so I wonder: what doesn't work in nix? What are its weaknesses? What about devices with non-free firmware?
Is it like docker? Anyway trying my hand on Kivy. Work for once for iOS and android undder macOS. Then never so far. Trying Gm even of macOS. No. May be start again with this and try to install Kivy again
I might want to try some new Linux distribution so I wonder: what doesn't work in nix? What are its weaknesses? What about devices with non-free firmware?
Documentation and naming conventions for Nix are absolute shit across the board. This will get downvotes, and people will say I'm wrong, but I'm 100% right. Go see yourself, it's bad. Language is called Nix, OS is actually called Nix, package manager is called Nix, just the whole thing seems like it was written in 1 week by a squirrel with 12 hands and a sack of ritalin.
That being said a lot of smart people here and in my peer group swear it's the truth, despite none being able to elevator pitch it.
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Having absolutely no fear going into an OS upgrade is one of the best parts of nix. If anything breaks, you can go back to your old config and be sure it’ll still work. Going back to an OS that doesn’t have this property feels like programming without version control.
Touching on that version control and Nix are the same thing. Would be cool if they merged in some system.
Obligatory disclaimer, they're still in beta, but everyone's using them anyway. There's some ongoing work[1] before they're officially released.
[0] https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Flakes [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE-vLFMTXxM
My router (a VM with passed through network card) is currently running on NixOS, I’m really happy so far, it makes kernel patching (which in my case is required for the nic to work properly at 2500BASE-T) much easier than manually patching and building the kernel every time. It also gives me the guarantee that I will be able to rebuild the exact same host almost bit by bit in the future, in case of necessity, which i…
I might want to try some new Linux distribution so I wonder: what doesn't work in nix? What are its weaknesses? What about devices with non-free firmware?
If you just want someone to shoot you straight: Documentation and naming conventions for Nix are absolute shit across the board. This will get downvotes, and people will say I'm wrong, but I'm 100% right. Go see yourself, it's bad. Language is called Nix, OS is actually called Nix, package manager is called Nix, just the whole thing seems like it was written in 1 week by a squirrel with 12 hands and a sack of ritalin…
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you can't run binaries built for other distributions, without patching them
Sort of true, you can but it require a fhs environment setup
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If you just want someone to shoot you straight: Documentation and naming conventions for Nix are absolute shit across the board. This will get downvotes, and people will say I'm wrong, but I'm 100% right. Go see yourself, it's bad. Language is called Nix, OS is actually called Nix, package manager is called Nix, just the whole thing seems like it was written in 1 week by a squirrel with 12 hands and a sack of ritalin…
That last sentence is so true. I'm all in on Nix and I couldn't elevator pitch it if my life depended on it.
I might want to try some new Linux distribution so I wonder: what doesn't work in nix? What are its weaknesses? What about devices with non-free firmware?
- You will have to learn both the nix language and working with nixpkgs. Learning nix is pretty trivial IMO (great resources are nix-1p[0] and Nix Pills[1]) but the documentation, while vast, is pretty shallow at the moment. You will likely have to resort to reading random blog posts, nix configs published by others and the source code of nixpkgs itself. - As mentioned by another commenter you will not be able to run…
That seems weird to me. I don't have to learn package configuration language in other distributions. I thought that one could just install packages with a package manager.
> You can use nix-alien[2] which will automatically fetch the required libraries and build an FHS shell for the binary.
That's actually fine. I want to put closed source software into a chroot anyway.