It’s a horrible distro for trying to run your desktop.
Why? Do you know any other distro that lets you swap your default kernel to a number of real-time gaming-optimized kernels in few lines of configs at any moment without any risks? Also, just install toolbox/distrobox/homebrew into it for minor stuff that you don’t mind being reproducible enough to justify bloating the config.
This particular example isn’t very good, just install multiple kernels (or compile one yourself) on your distro of choice and boot into the one you want with your bootloader of choice. Once set up you don’t even have to change any configs any more, just use an interactive menu on boot. So even easier than NixOS? There are plenty of valid use-cases for Nix, this isn’t one of them.
Hey, to offset the person in the other comment, I want to say this: thanks for making home-manager and firefox-addons, my digital life is so much better with those <3
Suspiciously you’re the one who’s trying to be included into every Nix{,OS} conversation with alternative facts easily disproved with a 5 second ddg search. Also, you’re writing this to friggin rycee 123, which is just a cherry on top. Sincerely, someone who’s mastered time travel because apparently running NixOS 15.09 on a desktop was not possible in this timeline. Oh wait whoops people have been running NixOS on desktop since 2007.
(honestly, you must be trolling, I just don’t see any other reason to do this shit.)
Thats just not true. Nix and NixOS are not the same thing. Nix is meant for CI/CD. NixOS is an OS designed for both desktop and server use. Why would there even be so many desktop environments and desktop software packages if it wasnt designed to be used on a desktop?
deleted by creator
Why? Do you know any other distro that lets you swap your default kernel to a number of real-time gaming-optimized kernels in few lines of configs at any moment without any risks? Also, just install toolbox/distrobox/homebrew into it for minor stuff that you don’t mind being reproducible enough to justify bloating the config.
This particular example isn’t very good, just install multiple kernels (or compile one yourself) on your distro of choice and boot into the one you want with your bootloader of choice. Once set up you don’t even have to change any configs any more, just use an interactive menu on boot. So even easier than NixOS? There are plenty of valid use-cases for Nix, this isn’t one of them.
That’s way more complicated than adding a single line of text in a single text file and also having guaranteed way back if anything goes wrong.
Its not for everyone but I’ve been using NixOS as my desktop OS for nearly 10 years and I am honestly pretty satisfied with the experience.
Hey, to offset the person in the other comment, I want to say this: thanks for making home-manager and firefox-addons, my digital life is so much better with those <3
Ohh so that’s why that name was familiar.
Thanks, that is very nice to hear!
deleted by creator
Suspiciously you’re the one who’s trying to be included into every Nix{,OS} conversation with alternative facts easily disproved with a 5 second ddg search. Also, you’re writing this to friggin rycee 1 2 3, which is just a cherry on top. Sincerely, someone who’s mastered time travel because apparently running NixOS 15.09 on a desktop was not possible in this timeline. Oh wait whoops people have been running NixOS on desktop since 2007.
(honestly, you must be trolling, I just don’t see any other reason to do this shit.)
Yes they have? Why are you just making shit up.
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/15.09-beta/pkgs/desktops/plasma-5.3
Thats just not true. Nix and NixOS are not the same thing. Nix is meant for CI/CD. NixOS is an OS designed for both desktop and server use. Why would there even be so many desktop environments and desktop software packages if it wasnt designed to be used on a desktop?