• CommunistEnglish
    6•12 days ago

    next step is nixos! holy fuck transitioning from arch to nixos was hell, i did like 10 years of arch.

    • itsjessEnglish
      3•12 days ago

      Or Gentoo? I haven’t used nixos yet so cant speak on it but Gentoo has been awesome to tinker and learn with.

      • CommunistEnglish
        2•12 days ago

        I think nixos is harder than gentoo, plus you can do all the gentoo compile from source stuff on nixos

        • itsjessEnglish
          2•11 days ago

          Genuinely curious cause i don’t know much nixos, does it support an equivalent to USE flags or slots?

          • CommunistEnglish
            3•11 days ago

            I don’t know much about gentoo, but use flags sound a lot like overlays to me, but like I said, i’m not familiar with gentoo.

            nixos allows the install of various versions of software by default so slots are definitely a thing. It’s one of the main things nix wanted to fix.

            • itsjessEnglish
              2•9 days ago

              I ended up installing the nox package manager on my gentoo machine, and it’s been useful so far. Got some packages installed that aren’t in the native Gentoo repo