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by vaibhavsagar 2248 days ago
I love Nix and NixOS, but having "a lotta gotchas" doesn't square with "no nasty surprises".
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Maybe im using the term wrong, I mean there is a steep learning curve but its nothing that will cause you serious issues like randomly deleting data or “how do I un-rm a file?”. The complexity is in using the tooling and not in the commands being idiotic and having dangerous side effects, if anything less so than other OSes