god I’m not brave enough to try flatpak on nixos. trying to make appimages work scared me off of the "universal " formats. I just beat my head into the wall learning how to write nix packages.
nixos is a good investment when you know exactly what you like and just want to reproduce it on every machine you touch. the ability to rollback and stuff are just nice perks - they’re not gonna get you over the admittedly steep learning curve of the packaging system.
just so I know what level of guide you need - have you ever installed arch or one of the other distros that have you set things up yourself before? or have you mostly used gui installers?
Honestly for proprietary apps I use Flatpaks. I just have the daemon for that enabled in my nix config. It’s too bad having to manage 2 packaging systems, but I only need a few things installed from flathub and it makes life easier.
NixOS btw
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god I’m not brave enough to try flatpak on nixos. trying to make appimages work scared me off of the "universal " formats. I just beat my head into the wall learning how to write nix packages.
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nixos is a good investment when you know exactly what you like and just want to reproduce it on every machine you touch. the ability to rollback and stuff are just nice perks - they’re not gonna get you over the admittedly steep learning curve of the packaging system.
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all of those things work perfectly in nixos. I use most of them myself.
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just so I know what level of guide you need - have you ever installed arch or one of the other distros that have you set things up yourself before? or have you mostly used gui installers?
nixos gang!
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Honestly for proprietary apps I use Flatpaks. I just have the daemon for that enabled in my nix config. It’s too bad having to manage 2 packaging systems, but I only need a few things installed from flathub and it makes life easier.