Thread 105804183

>spend hours making your initial conf file
>everything breaks every other upload and forces you to spend more hours digging for what went wrong
>everything mildly new is installed through unstable nix packages you hope some fag keeps updated or you have to write your own flake
>"stable and solid" flake will always break and force more hours of debugging when you add anything
>every new program install is a major time commit to make sure there are no missing dependencies, weird paths or config files
>updates are now 1h rebuilding sessions, github issues and debugging
>documentation is not as solid as arch
>mfw i've realized i'm not willing to spend the time needed to git gud at this distro
I've encountered my filter. Stopped distro hopping and used my parabola install for months now. I can't imagine how much time you fags daily driving nixos have sunk into it.
Solid server or router OS though

>>105804183 (OP)
your complaint can be summarized to
>i need to learn what i'm doing but i don't

hope that helped

>>105804183 (OP)
Don't bother with Nix if you're not simultaneously into functional programming. If when you look at something like Haskell your first reaction is getting weirded out and not curiosity, probably a declarative distro like Nix is not for you, and that's ok, you can still get most of the pragmatic benefits of nix by installing he package manager on your current distro

>>105804729
lol
lmao even
That stupid piece of shitlang doesn't even have a type system, let alone decent docs. They should have replaced it with Nickel yesterday.

I've found it it to work well for a home server distro. Setup my services then forget about it.
I used it as a desktop distro, and as soon as I tried to do things that did not fit into its ecosystem it quickly became a pain in the ass.

>>105804183 (OP)
what kind of things broke for you?
i wrote my Guix config once, tweaked it minorly over time, never had an issue that couldn't be circumvented by reverting to the previous generation and waiting a little bit, lole. smooth sailing for desktop use.
i was using NixOS beforehand, and it was more convoluted and obtuse, but i never had a huge problem-- it was all just a bunch of small annoyances until the community fiasco made me leave. i don't think i'd ever go back to it as a system base, but i do still flakes for dev envs.

>>105806790
how do you deal with properiatery software on guix? nvidia and other drivers that are cut from the kernel?

>>105807303
nonguix repo exists

>>105804183 (OP)
>single flake sets up my whole homelab
weak

>>105806790
based /g/uixchad