If you don’t start using and contributing to free tooling now, they’ll never get better and they’ll never be “professional” (whatever that actually means).

You can continue to lock yourself into proprietary tooling, but that result will always be the same: a decent product gets bought, made subscription, get worse in quality while bleeding the customer out via subscription. You are already there will Adobe, and its started for Affinity.

So, the longer you hold out on FOSS tooling, the worse and slower things will be.

Look at how excellent FOSS tools are when they get attention and investment: blender and krita.

but honestly, the place where Nix “3rd party” tooling shines is in documentation.

totally amazing what can be done with millions of dollars in VC money, huh?

But why? This only seems practical if people are using the environment once. Otherwise you’re just wasting a lot of bandwidth downloading dependencies over and over.

You should really just set up nix garbage collection to run once a week or something and be done with it.

Impermenance is not the same as immutability.

OpenZFS is the zfs now. There is no difference.

Maybe https://github.com/aksiksi/compose2nix will help you out!

As it stands now, I don’t think nix wants “regular users”; rather it wants user/contributors.

adding private features is lame… so they’re distribution of nix has two daemons running? also lame. Very lame on the whole, great job!

Its not the “Linux OS” that we want, but it is Linux, it runs the Linux kernel, so does chromeOS.

Be cleat about what you want.

What you call “Linux OS” is actually GNU/Linux, or as I’ve taken to calling it lately, GNU + Linux.

That’s what android is ;)

nix-env should be avoided, it is bad. I wish it were not in the docs so much. If you need a package for a short time, use nix-shell or nix shell.

Glad you got it working tho.

Does the flatpak stuff show up in your path? Wha’ts yhour nix code for flatpaks looks like?

Did you restart?

well then life just substantially improved for you.

Why are you not using the options search at https://search.nixos.org ? Or an LSP that shows you options in your editor.

ah sorry, I misunderstood the question.

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Replaces the Archwiki with basically 0 docs

Arch wiki is still relevant, I still use it as a reference on my NixOS box.

a large chunk of your Linux knowledge no longer applies

Your pacman and pacur (or whatever the name of the air helper soup de jour is this week) will no longer apply. Most of my linux knowledge was still applicable. You have all the same programs that run in the same way as they do on arch.

you can’t compile from source

Sure you can. Want to compile everything from source? Just turn off using the cache. NixOS is a source based distro.

everything is different

Also no. I use the same programs I can get on most other distros.

the nix language kinda sucks until you “get” it, etc.

If you have ever used another functional language its fine.

After nix there is only sadness

It is better in all the ways. Newer packages, no imperative config, reproducible.