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NixOS is a Linux distribution with a unique approach to package and configuration management. Built on top of the Nix package manager, it is completely declarative, makes upgrading systems reliable, and has many other advantages.
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Con Beginners Linux users may not want to learn Nix Expression Language to customize more advanced installs
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NixOS
2 years ago
nixOS is great if you want to seem trendy, have a drive you intend to store nothing but the system on (because its read only on rootfs, not obvious until I spent the whole weekend around Thanksgiving working on setting it up). There is the systemd issue, which is central to how nixOS operates and comes with...
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Recommended 3 years ago
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