As the title implies, should I do it? I love Arch so far, and I can fix most issues that pop out. However, I sometimes wish to start fresh without too much hassle, but I get a feeling NixOS isn’t as mature as Arch.

Have any of you used both, and if so, what do you miss from Arch? What are you grateful for in NixOS?

  • inverimus@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I haven’t used NixOS but it does sound interesting. From what I gather all you need is your configuration.nix file to rebuild the entire system the same as it was before. I think for sure the biggest thing I would miss is the AUR.

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      1 year ago

      In practice it takes a long time to build a config for absolutely everything in your system at least from my experience of it

      There are a few things I’ve not bothered to put in the config like wallpaper, gtk theme, macros (though I do want to put macros in declaratively because it feels like missing a limb not having them)

      System setup wise you can completely wipe the machine and have it back up to where you left it in 20 mins or so

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        1 year ago

        That is good to know, but if you are missing something it seems you need to package it yourself. I’m sure I could do that, just not sure I really want to be doing it.

    • ruination@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      Well nixpkgs and NUR should be big enough, and you can just quite literally use Nix to grab stuff from Github anyways.