• @iopq@lemmy.world
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    87 months ago

    Don’t install NixOS. You won’t distrhop anymore because you can easily keep switching DEs/WMs and all the other packages

    • @someguywithacomputer@lemmynsfw.com
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      7 months ago

      What’s the advantage of NixOS? The thing about package isolation to overcome dependency issues sounds attractive but surely that comes with at least some kind of disadvantage.

      • @iopq@lemmy.world
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        27 months ago

        The disadvantage is there’s no global libraries. If you want to run a plain executable you need to steam-run it instead of just launching it and it will create an environment similar to Ubuntu

        The advantage is you just run things and they work. I heard there was some packaging issue with hyprland because of different library versions, but it never affected NixOS because there’s no global library

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        17 months ago

        But it sucks in ways you can always find a solution for. You’re never like “oh so these two packages have incompatible dependencies and I can’t have both”