• 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