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As it stands now, I don’t think nix wants “regular users”; rather it wants user/contributors.
Nix is weird and confusing, and I say that as a self holster and student of computer science. Nix is a weird side thing.
I’ve got it working a couple of times. In my opinion they need to fix documentation, make flakes an officially supported thing and take it out of beta that it’s been in for years so that documentation can be further created, and the installer should work on a majority of devices out of the box.
My laptop was the worse experience. I just wanted KDE and Firefox. I don’t use it for much. But, KDE wouldn’t load so I had to go into CLI and edit the configuration.nix and change some stuff to get it to work. It’s a thinkpad that has official support for Linux. So, it was specifically a nix driver issue. I just installed Arch again and went on like normal. I would love to trust it with a server. But, I just can’t.
The headline felt a little weird, but turns out this wasn’t written by Eelco. I thought how can they have found nix in 2016 if they’ve created it to begin with lol
Either way, I’ve switched all by one of my machines to Nix now, including my Darwin laptop, and it’s honestly been pretty damn good.
Aside from the huge learning curve, and a pretty depressing turnover rate for an occasional package update request, especially when it comes to home-manager.
The ability to have a flake structure, that you can push to git, and then re-use on all of your systems, is huge.
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Unfortunately, Determinate’s installer doesn’t work on my new Macbook ☹️
