NixOS

Reader supplied reviews for NixOS Average rating 9.0 from 53 review(s) Please selecting a rating in the range of 1-10. Please write at least a few sentences about the distribution while limiting your review to 4080 characters. What are your thoughts on NixOS? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- unstable23.0522.1122.0521.1121.0520.0920.0319.0919.0318.0917.0916.0916.0315.09.101214.12.88514.04.63013.10.35728 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 23.05 Rating: 10 Date: 2023-09-25 Votes: 4 This distro... works. No bug, no lag, gigantic repo. It may seem trivial to say that, but I always encountered bugs or lags in my distrohopping journey : fedora is quite flashy, but bugs and crashes... Ubuntu has not, but Ubuntu is laggy to me... Arch is the solution... but Arch seems fragile if not maintained enough... so Manjaro ? No Manjaro can break anytime... so Debian ? Too old... I was never satisfied... until NixOS. Even if you're not interested in the technology behind (read-only, reproducibility, security, etc.), when the main difficulty is behind (the first configuration, Nix devs you should focus on that)... this becomes a quasi no-brain distro. I want to test "ncdu" I did not know ? Hop : nix-shell -p ncdu and BIM. It seems great ? Ok : I add ncdu in my environment.systemPackages and it will ALWAYS be there, even if I change my PC and install NixOS on a new one... So... try it. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: unstable Rating: 10 Date: 2023-09-06 Votes: 5 Spanning a tech career over 22 years using macOS to Gentoo I am thrilled to be using NixOS and its's capabilities on all my devices and in all respects I possibly can. It's a distro, it's a package manager, it's a language. I don't even want to compare it to other linux distros because it is simply in a class of its own (not to diminish other OSes and PMs). I am now learning something new every day, taking notes and to reiterate excited about this amazing technology and interested in how the future of compute and human / computer interaction could be changed as this project progresses. Purely Functional. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: unstable Rating: 10 Date: 2023-08-24 Votes: 8 NixOS is the only system I'm willing to stick with because of its reproducibility, declarative nature, and composability. With declarative configuration, you can manage your entire system just like managing code. With reproducibility, you no longer have to deal with strange environment differences (not absolute, but these issues are significantly reduced). With composability, you can manage your configuration in a modular way. This is especially effective when you need to manage multiple computers because you no longer have to synchronize configurations between different machines by copying them. Instead, you can extract their common parts for unified maintenance and individually maintain the differing parts. Finally, you can combine the different parts, just as you would do when writing any other code. Using NixOS allows me to continuously improve my skills, and it provides me with a high ceiling, making it feel like second nature to use. In this regard, it's very similar to tools like Vim, Emacs, and Git. If you also enjoy these tools and have experience with functional programming languages, there's a good chance you'll also appreciate NixOS. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 53 reader reviews of NixOS...