I’ve used NixOS, wasn’t that big of a fan. I certainly love the idea, but not the execution. Fedora Atomic just comes out of the box as a more complete, configured system that’s easier to understand.
I have been meaning to use Nix on Atomic, but the problem is that since / is immutable, Nix cannot create /nix and so doesn’t work properly. But there are workarounds for that issue, I just haven’t tried them yet.
Nix certainly fixes the PATH issues of homebrew since it has its unique linking system.
I’ve never tried these “distroless” systems before. Curious about these setups. Have you tried nix pkg manager in place of brew?
I’ve used NixOS, wasn’t that big of a fan. I certainly love the idea, but not the execution. Fedora Atomic just comes out of the box as a more complete, configured system that’s easier to understand.
I have been meaning to use Nix on Atomic, but the problem is that since / is immutable, Nix cannot create /nix and so doesn’t work properly. But there are workarounds for that issue, I just haven’t tried them yet.
Nix certainly fixes the PATH issues of homebrew since it has its unique linking system.
Would you mind elaborating on that? I do have some suspicions but I would love to hear what bothered you about it.