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  1. it has improved a lot in the last years
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  2. this is a great video about nixos that actually explains what it is about and how it works
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  3. When the installation of a package fails, you get an error and still use the last generation. It is an atomic update.
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  4. nix has actually more up to date packages than arch! the nix cli is horrible, but we work on that https://repology.org/repositories/graphs
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  5. You can build your whole system from a specific version of nixpkgs with: nixos-rebuild -I nixpkgs=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels/archive/dcf5fd5.tar.gz switch It is possible to install a package in any version that was ever packaged in nixpkgs, but it's not that convenient. https://discourse.nixos.org/t/concept-use-any-package-version/6515 You can also pin nixpkgs in nix-shell, so your team use the exact same versions for a project. I use that to pin the version of a static site generator for my website. So i can just edit my page and use a compatible version every time, and update the generator when i want to. https://codeberg.org/davidak/webseite/src/branch/master/shell.nix
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  6. the comments on the other video said nixos works with windows in dual boot steam with proton works great on nixos and let you play many games https://www.protondb.com/
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  7. snap/flatpack/appimage/docker are bad workarounds for the problem called dependency hell. nix is an actual solution, since you can have multiple versions of the same package installed with nix-bundle, you can actually build a statically linked binary in an executable archive (what appimage also is) that should work standalone on any linux system
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  8. There is an option for dwm: services.xserver.windowManager.dwm.enable = true; but i don't know if it works and how to configure it. dmenu is also packaged, so it should work somehow if you don't figure it out yourself, you can ask on IRC or in the forum i have used i3 on nixos in the past and i know many in the community use a wm
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  9. I dual boot NixOS and macOS with systemd-boot. That works.
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  10. NixOS is a stable linux distribution that exists since 2002 (like Arch Linux) and has thousands of users including companies like Tumblr, Mozilla and many smaller. It solves real world problems, that no other distro can (except the fork GUIX). It has the second most packages (first is Arch) and the most up to date. https://repology.org/repositories/graphs You have seen the installation in the video. It's basically 10 commands. Do you get the same system with Arch or LFS with less commands? And than you still not have a reproducible system with atomic updates.
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  11. yes, devops people love it. and you have the advantages of configuration management also for desktop it's actually better than any other configuration management tool: https://www.domenkozar.com/2014/03/11/why-puppet-chef-ansible-arent-good-enough-and-we-can-do-better/
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  12. correct. it's actually better than any other configuration management tool: https://www.domenkozar.com/2014/03/11/why-puppet-chef-ansible-arent-good-enough-and-we-can-do-better/
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