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Why I Left NixOS for Ubuntu (fd93.me)

submitted 7 months ago by fd93 to c/programming

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Hey all, thought this might be of interest to some here.

Wrote about why I moved from NixOS to Ubuntu after using it for several months on my daily driver. Suspect that this take is likely to be kind of controversial and court claims of skill issues, which might even be true.

Let me know what you think.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (10 children)

tldr:

fucking with configs for hours regularly
pip & venv doesn't work on nixos
DE broke when installed new DM
not much community support

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I didn't realize pip and venv didn't work... that's a pretty big deal breaker for a lot of people, myself included.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I'm not a Nix user, but doesn't Nix make both pip and venv obsolete in a way? Nix is a package manager (which could be used to package anything including Python packages/modules) and also allows you to create environments that include only certain packages of certain versions.

[–] fd93 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sounds good in theory, until you want to install scikit-image or other Python libraries which need complex builds.

[–] Corbin 10 points 7 months ago

python3Packages.scikit-image appears to be available and non-broken in nixpkgs; on my machine, I get /nix/store/w8681ncsw92cn4gq6gyraw4z19r0r6c3-python3.11-scikit-image-0.21.0. Do you have an actual example?

I understand your point, but given nixpkgs' position in the community, it might be a moot point.

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