What’s the advantage of NixOS? The thing about package isolation to overcome dependency issues sounds attractive but surely that comes with at least some kind of disadvantage.
The disadvantage is there’s no global libraries. If you want to run a plain executable you need to steam-run it instead of just launching it and it will create an environment similar to Ubuntu
The advantage is you just run things and they work. I heard there was some packaging issue with hyprland because of different library versions, but it never affected NixOS because there’s no global library
But it sucks in ways you can always find a solution for. You’re never like “oh so these two packages have incompatible dependencies and I can’t have both”
Don’t install NixOS. You won’t distrhop anymore because you can easily keep switching DEs/WMs and all the other packages
What’s the advantage of NixOS? The thing about package isolation to overcome dependency issues sounds attractive but surely that comes with at least some kind of disadvantage.
The disadvantage is there’s no global libraries. If you want to run a plain executable you need to
steam-runit instead of just launching it and it will create an environment similar to UbuntuThe advantage is you just run things and they work. I heard there was some packaging issue with hyprland because of different library versions, but it never affected NixOS because there’s no global library
nixos sucks in a lot of ways sadly all non declerative os are automatically worse
But it sucks in ways you can always find a solution for. You’re never like “oh so these two packages have incompatible dependencies and I can’t have both”