I’d like to settle on a distro, but none of them seem to click for me. I want stability more than anything, but I also value having the latest updates (I know, kind of incompatible).

I have tested Pop!_Os, Arch Linux, Fedora, Mint and Ubuntu. Arch and Pop being the two that I enjoyed the most and seemed the most stable all along… I am somewhat interested in testing NixOS although the learning curve seems a bit steep and it’s holding me back a bit.

What are you using as your daily drive? Would you recommend it to another user? Why? Why not?

  • crystal@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    I use NixOS on my main PC.

    If you want to use NixOS, you have to be willing to read.

    Two things are especially difficult:

    Coding: You will have to learn the Nix-specific way for everything you do. How does Nodejs work in NixOS? How does GCC work in NixOS? How does my IDE work in NixOS?

    Using unofficial packages: The nix repos are very large and you’ll most likely find everything you need there (or on flatpak/flathub). But if something isn’t there, the easiest way tends to be packaging it as a nix package yourself. And that’s something many people probably don’t want to do.

    The coding thing is annoying enough that I may switch away from NixOS at some point.

    Other than that, NixOS is great.

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      1 year ago

      I’m trying to solve problem with coding in NixOS with Distrobox and Archlinux container with all the tools for development. Work fine for me.