NixOS 21.05

Post by circularfoyers » Fri, Jun 04, 2021, 5:01 PM UTC

kaba0 wrote: post #117

acgkmopvvgvmgv wrote: post #87

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Nix and similar projects are all going to be eaten alive by immutable distributions, Flatpak and new projects - that might work just like Nix but get the user experience right, and make packaging and maintenance easier. And no I'm not saying they do the exact same thing, have all the same features or target the same type of users. For the developer tools side I like what Shopify did but I would never recommend that t…

I’m not too afraid of a niche being eaten alive by a slightly larger niche :D Also, I don’t really see the value of flatpaks, they don’t solve the dependency hell problem (nix does) nor they are adequate sandboxes (be honest, linux has non-existent user-space security, it’s frankly terrible. And for some reason even flatpak is written in goddamn C in 2000+ something)

Post by Sleepytime » Sat, Jun 05, 2021, 2:57 AM UTC

gmfawcett wrote: post #103

Sleepytime wrote: post #69

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>It doesn't work so well for I borrowed my coworker's computer for 5 minutes and want to use my own Vim configuration You could use something like nixos-shell[1] to spin up a headless VM of your machine into your current shell. [1] https://github.com/Mic92/nixos-shell

Well that is pretty neat. Thanks for the mention of nixos-shell. I've been a NixOS daily-driver for the past 6 months or so, but I am still picking up new ideas on a daily basis. :)