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Three Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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Three Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

ikidd@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 days ago

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A review of Nix/NixOS after using it on all my machines for three years. I'll cover what works, what doesn't, and why it's the first OS that's stuck with me.

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It also is an option to ensure everyone has the same dev environment.
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  Meh. So is docker.
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    The docker is not bare metal though.
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      sigh, yes it is.
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      Does it matter if the overhead is practically irrelevant?
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        It could if there are issues accessing hardware directly. Overhead is, as you said, not that important.
        
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        Isn’t it what passthrough is for?

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