2026-09-21 11:18 UTC
@luana@wetdry.world here’s what’s happening: nix is genuinely frustrating to use. Many guides are revolved around Docker and Docker Compose, but I don’t want to use those with a nix config. Also, not everything is packaged and I genuinely don’t want to learn how to create flakes to package programs. It’s simply not for me. Using a regular Debian system with Docker Compose for services is more of my thing.
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@luana@wetdry.world 2026-09-21 11:40
@lighty@wetdry.world i see. Usually I don't care much for the guides since nixos modules already exist and I can search for their options on search.nixos.org. Did you recently find anything you wanted to use that was not packaged? There are some ways to declare docker containers in nix configuration I think, why're you against that? It could give you the best of both worlds in running stuff only available on docker but still declaring it on the same place as the rest of your system