NixOS

Reader supplied reviews for NixOS Average rating 9.1 from 72 review(s) Please selecting a rating in the range of 1-10. Please write at least a few sentences about the distribution while limiting your review to 4080 characters. What are your thoughts on NixOS? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- unstable24.0523.1123.0522.1122.0521.1121.0520.0920.0319.0919.0318.0917.0916.0916.0315.09.101214.12.88514.04.63013.10.35728 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 24.05 Rating: 10 Date: 2024-09-11 Votes: 2 This system is not like other distributions. But talk about its complexity is greatly exaggerated. There is a lot of information on the Internet about how to install and remove packages, how to configure gpu, how to start and stop services via configuration.nix. Of course, I would like all this information to be collected in a wiki. But if information on solving a problem cannot be found on the Internet, friendly discourse.nixos.org forum users come to the rescue. As for me, the system just works now. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 24.05 Rating: 10 Date: 2024-07-24 Votes: 20 full excelente. excellent project, iexcellent project, it is worth supporting it, its declarative form seems to me an excellent idea of control for the system, its very updated packages, I have been using NixOS for several months and I am very satisfied, and although I am not a programmer, I know it has a learning curve but still, it gives me the ease of building the operating system to my liking, only with what I need it without unnecessary processes and without so much wear and tear and very functional,,, in addition to the ease and variety of choosing and modifying the different environments, I think it is important to support projects like these, Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 24.05 Rating: 10 Date: 2024-06-21 Votes: 23 NixOS is different from other Linux distros to a degree that other Linux distros usually aren't, but if you're a believer in the philosophy it's really next level. I don't ever see myself changing distros again unless something comes along with a better take on that same philosophy (there's always room for improvement!) A lot of discussion about NixOS talks about it from the perspective of a sysadmin - here are some thoughts as a desktop user. Pros: - "Declarative" means you can organize and version your system in git. Although you can do this to some degree with dotfiles and setup scripts for other distros, the declarative way can't be beat in terms of being able to organize your stuff. - "Reproducible" means everything just works. You run into essentially no problems when you're working with the standard stuff in nixpkgs. People like to emphasize how "reproducible" also means "rollback", but ironically it's hard to get yourself in a situation where you need to rollback. - "Declarative" and "reproducible" together means that you can experiment with other people's config and take what you like. This gives you an incredible third support option compared to documentation and asking the community: just search GitHub. Cons: - You have to learn and internalize Nix to be effective. It is a lot to grok and I think that this can be harder than it needs to be since some aspects of configuring Nix could be done in a more intuitive way. - Docs are bad. I actually don't think this is as bad of a thing as some people make it out to be, but it's true. Once you learn Nix, you just read the nixpkgs code for the Nix side of things and reference ArchWiki for the Linux side of things. - Lack of FHS means sometimes you have to put in extra work to "Nixify" a program where running it would be trivial on other distros. This is mitigated to a large degree due to how comprehensive nixpkgs is. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 72 reader reviews of NixOS...