Comments by "" (@GSBarlev) on "Nix in 100 Seconds" video.

  1. You've just made Nix users extremely happy. That's right, all eight of them.
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  2. Arch Nix 🤝 SteamOS since 3.5
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  3. ​ @Ztaticify The Gentoo people were supposed to be delivering the roasts, but they got stuck compiling the latest version of Ladybird. They'll be here eventually.
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  4. Arch users to each other: "Is that how annoying we've sounded all this time?"
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  5. Anyone who's ever tried to do anything productive on SteamOS: Âżporque no los dos?
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  6. Lack of stable docs is what's been keeping me from switching to NixOS. I love the idea of Nix—it's like conda on psychotropics—but if all I'm after is reproducibility and rollbacks, pacman + timeshift is enough for me.
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  7. Nix isn't containers, just overlays. No sandboxing, individual components are reused as possible.
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  8. It's not fully containerized, just overlayed up the wazoo (like conda if you've done any scientific Python). Means reuse of common dependencies, faster startups and no annoying sandboxing.
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  9. Yeah, if you know what you want, pacstrap -K plus a simple script to deploy your configs is gonna be fine. Where Nix shines, IMO, is as a replacement for virtual environments, especially since you can run everything in userspace. I have Hyprland running on SteamOS—no need to touch the read-only file system—through Nix, and it's easier to manage (IMO) than a dedicated container system like distrobox.
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  10. ​ @hamm8934 I'll probably try Nix over brew the next time I have a work mac.
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