Are there any distributions that offer benefits post-installation?
I am aware of Arch (and some other relevant distributions) having access to the AUR, and would like to know if other distributions can offer anything other than a quicker set-up.
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Awkwardly looks at NixOS
- Complete configuration based on declarative options.
- Home Manager for declarative home directory management.
- Nix Flakes for reproducibility and templating
- devShells for programming.
- Easy deployment on multiple machines, declarative disk partitioning with disko.
- Is incredibly trivial to switch desktop environments (KDE -> GNOME takes only a few lines, or you can have both).
- Releases every 6 months for a stable release, offers an unstable channel to live like an Arch user without all the fear of breaking anything you couldn't undo via the boot menu.
- Largest set of packages (over 80,000) that is contributed to every day.
NixOS is the most rewarding distribution to stick with, even though starting with it can be rough.
You should watch vimjoyers series on NixOS as an introduction since he goes over a lot of the essential basics that may trip newcomers up.
Already started, actually.
Also, considering that I don't want to manually re-partition a partition that I have already prepared for Linux on one of my drives, I think I will actually be starting with NixOS.
