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[–] 12 points 8 months ago (10 children)

Try Nix. She's into the weird stuff.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (9 children)

    What's so good about Nix? Genuine question.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Glad you asked! To start, the module system is really powerful, especially coupled with the flexibility of the nix language itself. It takes work to wrap your brain around everything but once you do it becomes such a cool ecosystem. If Arch is like using Lego blocks to configure your system, NixOS is like using a 3D printer. You have to learn about the store, function libraries, etc. It can be complicated and messy. But you can do some pretty cool things with it!

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    What's the repo situation like? Does it have all or most of the packages you'd want?

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    It's Gentoo, but for cowards.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    NixOS gives you a declarative build from a config file, so you can reproducibly deploy the same system, without worry of a system using different dependencies.

    MicroOS does something similar in that you can first boot from a config file and the system builds, including services and applications.

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