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NixOS is the endgame of distrohopping - Joshua Blais
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It doesn't matter, because Nix isn't built for it. That's not it's purpose or what it's best at.
Kickstart some Fedora if you need a similar experience, or use whatever ORM templating any other distro might offer. They all offer a better desktop experience because they are tuned with their packages and experience.
Nix is meant for automated build systems to be binary reproducible. That's it.
People fanning over the declaration language are foolish for not realizing that literally all the big distros have the same experience, BUT are not claiming the same end result.
I was asking more about linux distros other than NixOS.
similar [desktop] experiencesounds relative, what the comparison? Windows, MacOS, linux?Yeah, so LITERALLY ANY OTHER DISTRO, that says it's a Desktop Edition is a better choice.
What are we doing here? This isn't even an argument. It's a settled fact based on the documentation alone. You're trying to push a square before into a circle hole.
Correct, this isn't an argument, or at least I'm not trying to argue.
All I wanted to learn what exact properties you though makes for a better desktop OS.
I'm in agreement that NixOS isn't the best for mainstream desktop user base, but like any decent inquiry or survey, if I just preemptively bias someone's responses with my own observations on NixOS defecenties, then there wouldn't be as much of a case to before ask what they think other Linux Distro do better in the first place.
Not everyone who strikes up a convo online for a debate, and not all (but quite a few) who ask questions are trolls.
You're being told over and over that Mix is not that. Move on.
Well let me at least leave why I think Nix is not it at the moment:
You're speaking subjectively. Thays the first problem.
Nix was built for people like me who need a binary compatible build system to be replicable every single time, and present no false positives.
You're just...talking about a way you can customize it. It's a feature of major distro, you just didn't know. Do some research 😘
100% agree. I’ve tried NixOs with Home Manager for a couple of weeks and it’s very nice, however it not very useful to me and went back to Arch eventually. I just don’t see any benefit to using it over vanilla arch with Flatpak, Bubblewrap or Landlock, besides reproducibility.