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Is anyone using NixOS as their daily driver? (ymmel.nl)
submitted 3 years ago* by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I'm currently running Arch and it's great, but I'm noticing I'm not staying on the ball in regards to updates. I've been reading a bit about Nix and NixOS and thinking of trying it as my daily driver. I've got a Lenovo x1 xtreme laptop, I don't do much gaming (except OSRS), use firefox, jetbrains stuff, bitwarden, remmina, obsidian, and docker.

Is anyone running NixOS as their daily? How are you liking it and are there any pitfalls / stuff you wish you knew before?

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[–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

For distributing software (nixpkgs is a flake and many projects have flakes), replacing channels (again, nixpkgs is a flake) or managing configs (check out my repo)

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    So the only use of flakes is for packaging software? Haven't started packaging software for NixOS yet only managing my PC

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    No, it's also for your system to use locked versions of deps, so if you git clone you get a flakes.lock as well with all the versions. When you install from a git repo you get the same system again

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    So it's a way to ensure you always get the exact same version of dependencies?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Yes, you get the same version of deps and the actual software too. For example, wine breaks my game from time to time, but if I got clone my setup I will get the exact version of wine that I use that works, not the latest unstable version

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