It’s not about the destination, it’s about the journey.

  • merthyr1831@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    nix being 20 years old and still lacking decent documentation on the language it’s what hurts me the most, because the people who do know it works so some amazing things with it

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    8 months ago

    …to get a working config, you need to learn a whole new programming language and figure out the tweaks for each package you want to install, so I’d argue the journey is just as long

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      8 months ago

      I had no experience in nixOS, just went to the package website, it tells you exactly what to add to each section of the config.

      • totally_notAcat (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        8 months ago

        Well not everything is packaged and when they aren’t it Can get more complicated to install since nixos doesn’t use the default file system layout. Another thing is that certain programs have assumptions about being able to do certain things like changing their own config files that don’t work well with the nixos way of doing things. (Looking at you fish(it works but you can’t manage your configuration for it(pretty sure?)with nix))