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.
I recognize the username and you’re a long-time contributor IINM. Your responses resemble those of other long-time contributors. I thank you for your contributions, I really do, but it seems that you have been involved for long enough to have learned how to live with certain things and now consider them normal.
My opinions are my own and most likely do not represent those of the majority of newcomers (at least I hope they don’t otherwise you wouldn’t have many), but my experience contributing to nix repos has led to me deciding I won’t try and contribute anymore. You can’t make everyone happy so I might just be a statistic of course.
Good day
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