I’ve been using NixOS for my laptop and servers for over a year and I’m totally obsessed with it. While I upvoted you for visibility, I wouldn’t really call NixOS obscure anymore. I’m constantly seeing it randomly mentioned in various distro-agnostic Linux spaces online lately.
Although it’s been seeing a lot of hype lately, I agree it’s still sort of niche and definitely not for everyone.
I can see where you’re coming from! Specifically this community though I’ve not seen it a lot - you’re completely right though, the more native one becomes the more one is confronted with it.
I’m still struggling with the slowness of things (e.g. a quick endpoint change) and I can’t get my head around reason error messages “fluently”, i.e. I have to think about what the errors want to tell me instead of resolving it - a bit like old python stuff really.
And then there are the edge cases … It took me a long time to change the config the very first time while offline - which makes sense from a model perspective but from my user brain it was just … wrong :D
Perhaps I should switch my clients as well to get more exposure…
I’ve been using NixOS for my laptop and servers for over a year and I’m totally obsessed with it. While I upvoted you for visibility, I wouldn’t really call NixOS obscure anymore. I’m constantly seeing it randomly mentioned in various distro-agnostic Linux spaces online lately.
Although it’s been seeing a lot of hype lately, I agree it’s still sort of niche and definitely not for everyone.
I can see where you’re coming from! Specifically this community though I’ve not seen it a lot - you’re completely right though, the more native one becomes the more one is confronted with it.
I’m still struggling with the slowness of things (e.g. a quick endpoint change) and I can’t get my head around reason error messages “fluently”, i.e. I have to think about what the errors want to tell me instead of resolving it - a bit like old python stuff really.
And then there are the edge cases … It took me a long time to change the config the very first time while offline - which makes sense from a model perspective but from my user brain it was just … wrong :D
Perhaps I should switch my clients as well to get more exposure…