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Don't use NixOS.
Source:
Evidence:
These things are getting better but not fast enough that I'd recommend it.
If you really want to look into nix, use it on another distro and see if you're still interested after getting a flake-based devshell together. (impossible challenge: do it for a python project that relies on complex dependencies like transformers)
Genuine question from somebody who's out of the loop and doesn't use NixOS: How does this affect your day to day using the distro?
Basically you hemorrhage contributors because fuck this shit and then core components get more and more behind.
I don't like NixOS very much. This whole governance scandal has turned me away from it even more, tbh.
I've just switched my secondary machine to Nix, and was in the process of switching my main too, so it really is quite a shame. I'm really enjoying the distribution, but if the organization continues to have colossal government issues, and repelling active packagers, that's really not a good sign
Guix? I'm ignorant of both but very nix curious.
Now that I'm deep in it with flakes + home manager + impermanence + disko/nixos-anywhere, it's fantastic having this much control and stability on all my systems, and I'm excited to start switching as much of my homelab as I can over to NixOS like my workstations.
But I totally agree, I would not recommend this to anyone who is not super interested in it.