I came to the same conclusion. If I have a problem that I know nixos can solve it’s useful tool in my belt. But man you try to do anything out side the box the learning curve is massive. Good for those that know but when you only get to tinker a few times a week for a couple hours just getting things to work can be fun at first but gets old very quick.
Okay sure, but that’s like trying to use iOS and then saying it’s too restrictive. NixOS is pretty clear on what it offers and what it can do.
It would seem that Nix has succumbed in this case to its Archenemy.
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I don’t need reproducibility to the extent that NixOS provides
Alright, that’s fair. As a programmer, I’ve been having a blast using it - being able to quickly setup my laptops almost the same as my desktop is such a breath of fresh air, then being able to copy over most of my config to a WSL setup to employ
nixto get there 90% of the way on a Debian or Ubuntu WSL system is just so nice.But if you don’t need its features, or aren’t a programmer, I can very much imagine you’d rather stick to a more stateful system.
