Post #1640511

2026-02-12 06:37 UTC

@abmurrow @rperezrosario I deal with debian packaging tooling at work, and the more I do so, the less I want to deal with debian in my own free time. Nix and nix(pkgs) documentation are absolutely great compared to the mess around dpkg/apt/debhelper/lintian/different debhelper modules.

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@purrperl@noc.social 2026-02-12 07:26

@ar @abmurrow @rperezrosario I tried nixOS back in 2023 and it was still too raw for me to use as my primary OS. The nix scripting language also seemed a bit inelegant. Then there was the matter of having any given application available as a nix(pkg). Looking now, the website looks slick, and it looks like nixOS has matured and stabilized. So I am thinking of giving it another go. What is your feeling on the current state of nix? Especially, the nix pkg selection?

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@StarkRG@myside-yourside.net 2026-02-12 07:52

@ar @abmurrow @rperezrosario The NixOS community strife pretty much put me off the project entirely. I don't know if it's been resolved at this point, but, regardless, the damage has been done.

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@Ember@blobfox.coffee 2026-02-12 09:56

@ar @abmurrow @rperezrosario funny, my experiences with Nixos were the exact opposite, utterly terrible documentation imo

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