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NixOS is the best operating system I absolutely cannot recommend to anyone - Anurag Singh (www.xda-developers.com)
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[–] 8 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Is there no forum or discord for the distro? Or a self help book. Way back in the day that’s how i did shit on slackware. Irc and books.

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

    There's a forum, which is fine, but the people on there are very insistent that you should do things "the nix way" and if you don't go all in on that then you get chastised.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    There's a manual, a discourse (forum) and a Matrix. And an unofficial subreddit and a Lemmy community. As well as two wikis and a large number of random people writing blog posts and tutorials.

    This might be a hot take but honestly I think the documentation quality isn't the problem. You can point to specific topics that aren't well documented but that isn't unusual. What's unusual is how NixOS is designed and how working around its quirks requires close to distro maintainer levels of knowledge.

    Most distros don't require several pages of documentation on how to install a Python application. NixOS on the other hand...

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