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Mint is for older laptops, "based on Ubuntu" (thelemmy.club)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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I think I should just choose Arch.

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

Before I gone to nixos, I actually installed nix on mint, and it worked as great as flatpacks.

Ok yeah it's complicated to use, but you can just use it as a traditional package manager with nix-env.

So if you want more recent packages, you may want to look into it (and ignore the complicated declarative part, unless you want to fall in the rabbit hole)

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

    it worked as great as flatpacks

    Depending on your experience with flatpaks that's not exactly a rousing endorsement :P

    I generally like the idea but often ran into issues that only the flatpak versions of applications would run into (stuttering/performance/permission issues mostly in my case). Most of the stuff I have is still a flatpak, but I do occasionally need to use appimages instead.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago*

    If you ignore problems due to lack of permission to open a folder (good. Get sandboxed, idiot.), I don't have any issues with flatpacks apart that it uses a lot of space.

    Nix does too, but it actually reuse duplicate versions, and if you have BTRFS you can just dedupe it.

    Nowadays I don't use flatpacks. Nix got everything I need

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