Picture of Skinner from “The Simpsons” with the linux logo on his face and the word “Pathetic” in the bottom center of the picture.
Picture of Skinner from “The Simpsons” with the linux logo on his face and the word “Pathetic” in the bottom center of the picture.
…NixOS is the new Arch Linux. Change my mind.
It doesn’t have a wiki as good as Arch, yet
The difference is I can upgrade my NixOS without breaking everything hahaha. But it has gotten a lot more popular recently, which I think is your analogy? Or because people always bring it up now lol
yea i think its the popularity spike. if only there were more docs on flakes though.
If only wiki was as good as Arch’s…
exactly. cant blame them tho, its unofficial.
I still don’t completely get their point, TBH.
And the Nix language seems to be intentionally confusingly close to json.
The similarities are superficial at best. The only thing similar is that it uses braces for attribute sets (objects) and square brackets for lists. And I guess quotes for strings.
But otherwise it’s a full (functional) programming language, with functions, variable bindings, etc.
Flakes aren’t perfect, but they are really good for ensuring that you have completely reproducible builds since the version used for every dependency is pinned.
Hardly, NixOS documentation is trash. The Arch Wiki is essentially the platonic ideal of documentation.
Maybe you should learn to read the manual or debug your system without hand holding 😉
Truefax
Nah, NixOS has a very deserved air of superiority. Arch just fakes its one.