Post #2563343

2023-01-18 16:24 UTC

@corbin@defcon.social @stargirl@hachyderm.io this might be true for NixOS, but using Nix on other systems (like Fedora, as I have), my experience is that it gets weird-and-broken pretty quick in ways that are confusing, and the community can be quick to point out your error is simply because you are not using NixOS.

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@corbin@defcon.social 2023-01-18 23:07

@whack@hachyderm.io @stargirl@hachyderm.io Sure; along with NixOS, the container environment ("FROM nixos/nix") and Darwin are better-supported than classic LSB distros. Aside from #X11 and other system services, Nix is self-contained; however, Nix is not the goal, but part of the journey towards package-capability security.

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@nobody@mastodon.acm.org 2024-08-27 09:03

@whack@hachyderm.io @corbin@defcon.social @stargirl@hachyderm.io > my experience is that it gets weird-and-broken pretty quick in ways that are confusing, This usually happens somewhere in the vicinity of loading drivers (e.g. libcuda or libGL), which currently is only accommodated by wrappers (nixglhost, nixGL) and, yes, sucks. It's hard to improve upon because of how other dsitributions mix userspace drivers and normal libraries, but there are some cursed ideas being talked about involving libcapsule...

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