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by ThatMedicIsASpy
394 days ago
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I have tried NixOS and the out of the box experience isn't bad, neither on my main VM nor my notebook. Everybody points you to flakes and flakes point you do use the unstable branch of nixos and that is where I say no. Then you learn a bunch of things along the way like upgrading replaces your stuff and you have to start again. I've moved to Atomic desktops and can't name anything I am missing. For dev stuff there are containers. |
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Flakes is an "experimental feature" of Nix itself, but it has shipped in stable releases of Nix for years now. There was a time when you had to build an unreleased version of Nix to play with flakes but that was a long time ago.
Whether you use a rolling release for the package set, e.g., nixos-unstable or nixpkgs-unstable, is orthogonal to whether or not you use flakes.
Fwiw, I generally prefer to run the unstable branches of Nixpkgs. Occasionally you hit something you have an opportunity to fix yourself, but that's not very frequent these days, even on the unstable branches.