[mekster]

Packages are tend to be old. That's the downside of using nix over other package managers.

Stuff like filebeat from ELK stack is like a year old version.

Some are of course up to date but for less popular ones, you would look elsewhere to install.

To bad because I like how I can install things the same for macOS and Linux, unlike Homebrew whicu gets installed in some weird /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/ dir and shell config needs to be changed.

[soraminazuki]

> Packages are tend to be old. That's the downside of using nix over other package managers.

The stats from repology say otherwise. NixOS is the most up-to-date distro in existence.

> Some are of course up to date but for less popular ones, you would look elsewhere to install.

For less popular ones, it's more likely that the package won't even exist on other distros given the number of packages in nixpkgs.