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Nix - An universal package manager (nixos.org)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by howarddo to c/linux
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I think the main pain point of distro hopping is learning a new package manager, I discovered Nix a while ago, it works on every single OS, has the biggest package repo out there. I replaced Homebrew on my mac with it. If this piques your interest, give it a go. Later, you can integrate with Home-manager to manage all of your program config to have a reproducible dev environment on any machine, as described in the tutorial here.

The catch is it's really advanced and got steep learning curve. You can adopt gradually tho. Just get started with nix-shell and nix-env

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[–] msage 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So what's the catch? There usually is something not explained in the intro, that people should know beforehand.

[–] howarddo 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The catch is that it's hard, only if you want to use it at its max potential tho.

[–] msage 1 points 1 year ago

I use Gentoo on my desktop, so I can handle 'hard'.

If there is no catch, I might give it a try on my servers.