Hi everyone!

I saw that NixOS is getting popularity recently. I really have no idea why and how this OS works. Can you guys help me understanding all of this ?

Thanks !

    • PainInTheAES
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      3 years ago

      Yup, I did the same thing. I really wanted to make it work but I think it just needs some time to mature. Once it has some clean documentation and polishing it’ll be really cool.

      I really liked how NixOS has a hardware config repo. I have a Framework, used the config, and everything just worked. I mean it usually does on other distros too but it’s nice to know that if there’s a config it’ll be guaranteed to work.

      I’m currently really enjoying kinoite. I think it also has some documentation issues but it’s also not as radically different from your average distro as NixOS…

    • Faresh@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      3 years ago

      Never heard about Silverblue, but you may want look at GNU Guix. It is also a functional package manager and I’ve heard from some people that they liked the guix documentation more (not sure if that’s true). Also it uses scheme for configuration rather than some special-purpose language.