- pingveno ( @pingveno@lemmy.ml ) 5•2 years ago
I have been meaning to give Nix another try. Last time I did, it was an absolute pain in the ass to do anything that broke one of its assumptions.
- wiki_me ( @wiki_me@lemmy.ml ) 1•2 years ago
I also had problems with it, but after an upgrade it works pretty well.
- MasseR ( @MasseR@sopuli.xyz ) 1•2 years ago
I’ve been a nixos user for years, out of curiosity what was it you tried that was a PITA?
- pingveno ( @pingveno@lemmy.ml ) 1•2 years ago
The package language has a bizarre syntax/semantic that is unlike pretty much every language I’ve touched. The reliance on directly linking to specific paths in the nix store meant that precompiled binaries that expect a standard path won’t work on Nix. There are tools to adjust those paths, but the package I was attempting to work with (Apache Directory Studio) wasn’t playing nice with them for whatever reason. I finally gave up and made a Flatpak.
- Codeboy ( @Codeboy@lemmy.ml ) 2•2 years ago
calamares make nixos install easy