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I love NixOS, but the documentation is terrible. Better documentation would go a long way to making it a more user-friendly platform.
this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2024
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I really haven't given nix the language the time it deserves, but I really want nixosr configuration bindings in Python. Yes it makes me want to vomit but I do kind of live and breathe Python these days. Maybe a python nix generator would be more appropriate, either way it would totally destroy the benefits of using nix
Lol I appreciate your self awareness! That sounds just like the kind of questionable idea that'd be great for a joke GitHub repo, if nothing else.
Nix really isn't very difficult, the way you'd use it for a system configuration it's more like a config file than programming
It's mostly stuff like programs.firefox = { enable = true; };
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Lol I appreciate your self awareness! That sounds just like the kind of questionable idea that'd be great for a joke GitHub repo, if nothing else.
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Mostly perfect in my opinion but it'd be nice if when they renamed options they didn't deprecate the old option names so old configs still worked
I'd love yearly Debian releases instead of just every 2 years.
I would make Debian and Arch be deterministic like NixOS, but with a different language and less overhead. I really like the principle but the implementation is subpar.
Can we get a free software only version of every distro? That's what I want.
Debian is all free software if you just use the main repo and avoid non-free and non-free-firmware.
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I wish Gentoo would make important information like unmasking packages more easily accessible, like directly into the handbook itself so that I don't have to search how to do it every time I need to unmask a package (I always forget how to).
I also wish alpine Linux had an option to use glibc instead of musl
Slackware: nothing, it's perfect just the way it is.