Comments by "" (@pierreollivier1) on "Fireship"
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I've tested NixOS for about 6 months, and it's definitely not for everyone, I recently switched back to Ubuntu 24.04. Because If you don't get deep inside the ecosystem and understanding how everything works, and how to get around with it, it can be quite frustrating, I've really enjoyed how stable and easy it was to actually install packages, but installing dev tools / library is sometimes a pain because most things you want to build from source do expect dynamic libraries and what not, and for example I spent something like 2 weeks trying to install readline for a project and just couldn't find any way that was working reliably, without missing features or missmatch in version despite trying experimental channel and the official discourse forum nothing solved my problem, so I really like NixOS and if you often break your system it's definitely a huge benefit, but to me as someone who's bread and butter is C/CPP/Zig/Rust/ASM it's really hard to develop on NixOS unless you go trough the trouble of deeply learning how it works and imo it ain't worth the once every year few hours it takes to reinstall cleanly your system
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