Vuraniute@thelemmy.club to unixporn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago[LeftWM] Went back to Arch due to NixOS' compatibility issues. Made a nice little setup!thelemmy.clubimagemessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up156arrow-down14
arrow-up152arrow-down1image[LeftWM] Went back to Arch due to NixOS' compatibility issues. Made a nice little setup!thelemmy.clubVuraniute@thelemmy.club to unixporn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square8fedilink
minus-squaresik0fewl@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoWhat tempted you and what made you ditch it?
minus-squareVuraniute@thelemmy.clubOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoMostly all the declarative package management. It sounds like there’s no way to ever have a missing dependency ever again, but in reality, 99% of the time the thing you’re trying to run isn’t in Nixpkgs and doesn’t have a shell.nix.
minus-squarejavacafe01@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThat’s why you have to learn how to make derivations!
minus-squareVuraniute@thelemmy.clubOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoi tried, i really tried but it just didnt work.
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What tempted you and what made you ditch it?
Mostly all the declarative package management. It sounds like there’s no way to ever have a missing dependency ever again, but in reality, 99% of the time the thing you’re trying to run isn’t in Nixpkgs and doesn’t have a shell.nix.
That’s why you have to learn how to make derivations!
i tried, i really tried but it just didnt work.