I like the idea of NixOS but didn't like how it worked in practice. The custom language for configurations was annoying, the errors it spat out never made sense to me, I couldn't run binaries compiled for a regular linux distro, docker didn't seem to work properly, some stuff needs to be setup in a shell.nix file instead of the global configuration file for some reason. I would probably get the hang of it eventually but I just couldn't be bothered, the annoying shit outweighs any potential benefits tbh.
Yea, the custom lang was annoying, got used to it, but like, why not just take something already made instead of making yet-another-language.
I luckily rarely have to run binaries, but when I do, I chuck the games into lutris, and non games something like steam-run.
Not sure about shell.nix, too vague to talk about. I will say though, that I found direnv + lorri + shell.nix (or flake.nix) very useful, lets me cd into a dir and all the packages needed for that project are available, without having to install them globally, other people will also benefit from this if shell.nix and .envrc are checked in to git.
I would probably get the hang of it eventually but I just couldn't be bothered, the annoying shit outweighs any potential benefits tbh.
Yup. I didn't have too many annoying problems for it to outweigh the benefits. I also have a server, so that weighs on benefits.
You can run Nix home-manager on your current distro and start gradually moving your configurations and software over to Nix as you become more comfortable with it but still have your normal way of doing things if you need something installed quickly, then move all of it to NixOS when you're ready. It's better to start that way than jump straight to NixOS IMO
NixOS
Declarative configuration is so good
I like the idea of NixOS but didn't like how it worked in practice. The custom language for configurations was annoying, the errors it spat out never made sense to me, I couldn't run binaries compiled for a regular linux distro, docker didn't seem to work properly, some stuff needs to be setup in a shell.nix file instead of the global configuration file for some reason. I would probably get the hang of it eventually but I just couldn't be bothered, the annoying shit outweighs any potential benefits tbh.
Yea, the custom lang was annoying, got used to it, but like, why not just take something already made instead of making yet-another-language.
I luckily rarely have to run binaries, but when I do, I chuck the games into lutris, and non games something like steam-run.
Not sure about shell.nix, too vague to talk about. I will say though, that I found direnv + lorri + shell.nix (or flake.nix) very useful, lets me cd into a dir and all the packages needed for that project are available, without having to install them globally, other people will also benefit from this if shell.nix and .envrc are checked in to git.
Yup. I didn't have too many annoying problems for it to outweigh the benefits. I also have a server, so that weighs on benefits.
You can run Nix home-manager on your current distro and start gradually moving your configurations and software over to Nix as you become more comfortable with it but still have your normal way of doing things if you need something installed quickly, then move all of it to NixOS when you're ready. It's better to start that way than jump straight to NixOS IMO