Reader supplied reviews for NixOS
Average rating
9.0 from 59 review(s)
Version: unstable
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-01-21
Votes: 2
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There's a rather large learning curve, learning a whole new way of configuring linux. The documentation at times is pretty poor. It was a lot of trial and error getting the config working well. But once setup it works great, and is reproducible. It is extremely easy getting all the programs you want setup and installed from the get go. I like how you can easily roll the system back, in case one of my changes had unpredictable outcomes. Keeping everything up to date is easy and no thought goes into it. It's not for beginners or for people not willing to do things in a whole new way. But it works well once it's setup.
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Version: 23.05
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-01-07
Votes: 6
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This is a really great distro.
My main problem with other distros is that you can break them and they usually break at the worst time possible, resulting in time wasted on just fixing stuff. With NixOS that isn't really a problem. Since everything is in a config, you can simply rollback to a previous version of a config and BAM, just like that you have reverted a breaking change. Also the config helps you remember what changes you have made, which you can then later share and they will work for other.
There is a bit of a learning curve, although for me it wasn't a lot of hassle.
Although I do have one criticism for NixOS. Not all apps are working (example .deb apps or snap apps), which is not suitable for me to install on a work laptop (since some crucial work apps are only made for ubuntu and fefora) and additionally, since you should make everything through a config, this can sometimes take a lot longer since some niche information may be difficult to find.
All in all, I would still recommend NixOS. The fact that you can have everything in a config file makes it a lot easier to maintain than any other distro. No accidental system breaks and you will not forget what changes you have made.
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Version: 23.05
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-12-16
Votes: 30
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Finally, no more distro hopping.
I have finally found a distrobution that suits me perfectly. Not only it allows me to use the computer how I want it, but I can reproduce the same system in case I have to reinstall, which is so rare since I have daily droven this for 5 months, which is half the time I have daily droven Linux as a whole.
Literally no other distro works for me, Debian, adding PPAs are a nightmare, Arch sounded like the best distro by many people, and I gave it a try, but I realized it broke very often, due to me as I would occasionally configure something incorrectly. I continously switched between the two and ever switched back to Windows 10 LTSC (My Laptop supports 11, but I hate 11, therefore the reason I switched to Linux) because I did not know which Linux distro suited me, untill NixOS started trending, but still I did not know how good the distro would be untill I gave it a try.
And literally after switching I never looked back, I never reinstalled my system after the switch because it was rock solid and I could easily install whatever I wanted and I could reproduce my whole system.
Literally I don't understand why this distro is now looked down upon, it is the best Linux distro in my opinion, it like others has a laerning curve, but after you make that perfect configuration, you will never go back to cany other distro or Windows 10/11 (11 and regular Windows 10 22H2 suck so much)
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