I’ve been curious about NixOS for quite some time. Reading about it I couldn’t see how the config sharing capabilities, setup, or rollabck would be better than Arch and sharing the list of installed packages, using downgrade or chroot.
So I decided to run NixOS in a VM and I’m still confused. An advantage I can see for NixOS is its better use of cores and parallel processing for packages install.
It’s clear that I’m missing something so please help me understand what it is.
Very nice explanation. I also recognize this point for NixOS.After reading so many comments, they all confirm what I’ve read before and I may realize that my real problem is already having a stable system which means not being in need for some “advanced” recovery options. That being said, I’m still curious and will continue testing NixOS.
Not that I really have too much spare time but when I do I enjoy learning and tweaking NixOS. With its current development state, things are changing a lot so it can keep me busy for months. That’s probably what I was mostly looking for: another toy to play with. Will see if I actually switch to NixOS at some point. Thanks again for your feedback.