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by ladyanita22 437 days ago
Doesn't NixOS hog on your hardware?
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Weetile 437 days ago
It's very unlikely that performance would be hindered by a particular Linux distribution, but usually rather the desktop environment that it employs. NixOS with LXQt would run very differently to NixOS with GNOME.
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SuperSandro2000 437 days ago
How?

The package manager needs more RAM than the average other package manager because it is doing a lot more behind the back.

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ladyanita22 437 days ago
Because it's source based and there's probably a ton of compilation in the background
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