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Seems like this distro is getting a lot of traction recently. Has anyone tried it? Is it any good?
Seems like this distro is getting a lot of traction recently. Has anyone tried it? Is it any good?
I’d say it’s a pretty steep curve unfortunately, and nixOS is also not perfect, mind you
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. Packages installed with nix are patched to work that way, but things not installed with it might not run out of the boxAs for trying it out, yeah copying the config from the vm should work (except for maybe some hardware-specific stuff). remember to backup your stuff just in case lol
It’s really not. It has no runtime for starters; it’s a pure expression language. It can’t i.e. read stdin, open a socket or do an arbitrary syscall.
The end result is always data. You could and can turn every sensible evaluation of Nix into JSON.
There are indeed side-effects but they’re indirect; implied by the data that is the actual end result of an evaluation of Nix expressions. If your expression evals to a derivation (data), Nix will create a .drv file for you for example. They’re well defined and not arbitrary though.