I wrote recently about building my new gaming desktop where, if you weren’t blinded by all the lights, I also noted that I’ve moved from Arch to GNU Guix as my distro of choice. Why? And what is Guix? (And… Continue Reading →
Have you tried them out? I have, and strongly recommend it. There’s some painpoints with both (such as heavy resource usage when rebuilding your config, or erratic error messages) but that’s definitely a very interesting approach to be explored. To be honest, i feel like this is the first major OS paradigm change we’ve had since the 90s and it could very well be the future of OS development.
I’ve been interested by Nix-OS/Guix package managers every time I see them.
Have you tried them out? I have, and strongly recommend it. There’s some painpoints with both (such as heavy resource usage when rebuilding your config, or erratic error messages) but that’s definitely a very interesting approach to be explored. To be honest, i feel like this is the first major OS paradigm change we’ve had since the 90s and it could very well be the future of OS development.