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.

  • neosheo@discuss.tchncs.de
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    8 months ago

    Don’t forget to run nix-collect-garbage tho. The program is actually still installed, the symlimk to $PATH is just deleted after exiting the nix-shell