Picture of Skinner from “The Simpsons” with the linux logo on his face and the word “Pathetic” in the bottom center of the picture.

  • @taanegl
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    581 year ago

    …NixOS is the new Arch Linux. Change my mind.

    • @Telodzrum
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      301 year ago

      Hardly, NixOS documentation is trash. The Arch Wiki is essentially the platonic ideal of documentation.

      • @genie
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        31 year ago

        Maybe you should learn to read the manual or debug your system without hand holding 😉

    • @CodeGameEat
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      271 year ago

      The difference is I can upgrade my NixOS without breaking everything hahaha. But it has gotten a lot more popular recently, which I think is your analogy? Or because people always bring it up now lol

      • Vuraniute
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        231 year ago

        yea i think its the popularity spike. if only there were more docs on flakes though.

        • AggressivelyPassive
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          111 year ago

          I still don’t completely get their point, TBH.

          And the Nix language seems to be intentionally confusingly close to json.

          • @expr@programming.dev
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            61 year ago

            The similarities are superficial at best. The only thing similar is that it uses braces for attribute sets (objects) and square brackets for lists. And I guess quotes for strings.

            But otherwise it’s a full (functional) programming language, with functions, variable bindings, etc.

            Flakes aren’t perfect, but they are really good for ensuring that you have completely reproducible builds since the version used for every dependency is pinned.

          • @Shareni@programming.dev
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            41 year ago
            • control the versions of the repo and packages

            • config the official repo (allow unfree packages for example) that doesn’t work unless you’re on nixos

            • add packages from a git repo

            • update package definitions (think apt update)

          • Vuraniute
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            1 year ago

            iirc theyre meant to improve reproducibility by using pinned versions of stuff like nixpkgs instead of inheriting from your system which could be a problem if for example someone on 23.11 sends a deriv to someone on 24.05

        • @CodeGameEat
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          11 year ago

          I agree, altough I’m trying to use them here and there, i’m still very confused by it.

    • @leo85811nardo
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      111 year ago

      It doesn’t have a wiki as good as Arch, yet

    • @marcos
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      -181 year ago

      Nah, NixOS has a very deserved air of superiority. Arch just fakes its one.