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by tripdout 892 days ago
Checking nixpkgs now, it looks like the entire suite of Jetbrains tools are well-supported (except for the newest one, Fleet, since it looks like the people who tried ran into some issues they didn't know how to solve), as well as VMWare Workstation.

Coming from Arch, almost every package I want is on NixOS. The couple I can remember that weren't there are Android Studio for Platform (I packaged it myself following the derivation for the regular Android Studio), Obsidian.nvim (which was packaged a week or two after I mentioned it), and there's been a couple smaller tools that I can't remember.
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throwup238 892 days ago
According to the Github issue [1] they added VMWare Workstation in 2022 so the ship has long sailed. Last time I tried (2020 I think) I also couldn't get Xilinx installed and that was just the first in a long list of tools. Even now it requires an FHS workaround.

NixOS is great if you never tread from the happy path but it seems most of my work requires tools way off the happy path.

[1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/56814

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rowanG077 892 days ago
TBH every linux disto will sometimes leave the happy path. The difference between nixos and basically all other distros is that all other distros at least do most thing somewhat in the same way. So even an install for example for Ubuntu can relatively easily be translated to Arch. But that's unfortunately not the case with nixos. It's just too different. So once you are off the happy path you sometimes need real skill in nix to even do some, at first glance, simple things.
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