Nix & NixOS | Reproducible builds and deployments
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Nix is a tool that takes a unique approach to package management and system configuration. Learn how to make reproducible, declarative and reliable systems.

I think the main pain point of distro hopping is learning a new package manager, I discovered Nix a while ago, it works on every single OS, has the biggest package repo out there. I replaced Homebrew on my mac with it. If this piques your interest, give it a go. Later, you can integrate with Home-manager to manage all of your program config to have a reproducible dev environment on any machine, as described in the tutorial here.

The catch is it’s really advanced and got steep learning curve. You can adopt gradually tho. Just get started with nix-shell and nix-env

  • verstra@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Nice. Do you think it would be feasible to replace Nix-the-language with something more … how do I say it … conventional?

    • Howard Do@programming.devOP
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      1 year ago

      I mostly copy from other people’s config, not much learning at all. Heard that Guix is a good too if you only use linux, but it doesn’t have nonfree softwares right?

      • KOtBuEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Guix indeed doesn’t include nonfree software by default, but you can add the nonguix channel which does have it.