Hi everyone!

I saw that NixOS is getting popularity recently. I really have no idea why and how this OS works. Can you guys help me understanding all of this ?

Thanks !

  • Herbstzeitlose@feddit.de
    7·
    1 year ago

    Because it’s the latest Cool Nerd Thing™ like Arch before it, and Gentoo before that. Most of the people raving about it probably don’t have much use for its features.

    • IDe@lemmy.one
      41·
      1 year ago

      The features themselves are very useful for basically any user. Whether they are worth the non-standardness and issues that come with it is another question.

    • Captain Beyond@linkage.ds8.zone
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’m using GNU Guix System which is similar to NixOS and I think I can safely say I do appreciate Guix’s features that set it apart from a traditional GNU/Linux distro or package manager.

      • commandar@kbin.social
        21·
        1 year ago

        I don’t think that’s accurate, personally.

        Declarative orchestration systems have been around for years and have a very real use case when needing to stand up servers in a replicable way. Nix is applying that approach at the system level.

        I’m not entirely sold on wanting to put that level of effort into a personal desktop, but I don’t think it’s at all fair to say that it’s not addressing real problems.