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Is anyone using NixOS as their daily driver? (ymmel.nl)

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I'm currently running Arch and it's great, but I'm noticing I'm not staying on the ball in regards to updates. I've been reading a bit about Nix and NixOS and thinking of trying it as my daily driver. I've got a Lenovo x1 xtreme laptop, I don't do much gaming (except OSRS), use firefox, jetbrains stuff, bitwarden, remmina, obsidian, and docker.

Is anyone running NixOS as their daily? How are you liking it and are there any pitfalls / stuff you wish you knew before?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Using NixOS as my daily OS on a X1 since six years now.

The first months have been hard as at this time was no installer at all and I had to do everything manually. After a while I got used to the update process.

Recently I switched to Nix Flakes which is another challenge but seems to make the Nix way even more consequent.

The only odd thing what drives me nerves is that compiling on that machine takes sometimes a half day.

Besides this it is still the best OS I ever used