Reposting because it looks like federation failed.
I was just reading about it, it sounds like a pretty cool OS and package manager. Has anyone actually used it?
Reposting because it looks like federation failed.
I was just reading about it, it sounds like a pretty cool OS and package manager. Has anyone actually used it?
The idea behind it really appeals to me. However, Guix is so niche that I felt like it was not worth the effort to actually daily drive it. I went the NixOS way instead and have been daily driving it now for almost 2years. I’m really satisfied with the paradigm immutable and reproducible os. I also manage my servers this way and it makes it really easy to rollback stuff.
The learning curve is the same as for any language but you have to relearn how to manage an os this way as it can be really different than a trad os. It forces you to really understand for example how packages traditionally expect to link to various libs available on your system.
Nix is absolutely horrible as a language, though.
I’m a software developer with almost two decades of Linux experience and still struggle to make sense out of the structure. I can eventually get everything to run, but I don’t understand why and that’s extremely concerning.
Even simple scripts like flakes don’t work as expected. I tried to set up a simple environment with a bunch of packages (java, maven, etc) and I found about five completely different approaches online , none of which worked. And again: I couldn’t understand why.
The results - once everything works - are impressive, but the way to these results is far too complicated and convoluted. There’s no way, this much complexity is needed by default. That’s just bad design.