>>17173 (OP) Why does it suck?

>>17177 Probably because it isn't arch.

>>17173 (OP) skill issue

>>17173 (OP) NixOS had a "nazi purge" and got rid of a lot of developers so I would hold off before learning and look whether the project can continue or will spiral downwards. You won't learn anything applicable outside nix so if the project is kill you just wasted your time.

>>20543 That happened a year ago and I never saw any major unmaintained package. Trannies work on NixOS for free while I just have to write simple lines to configuration.nix to do something that took a lot more time to set up on other distros.

>>20543 There are too many developers (read: military contractors, academics, major businesses, etc) that rely on nix in some capacity. The tools aren't going anywhere anytime soon. The NixOS foundation just controls the main github repo for nixpkgs, and that can be and has been forked. Also note that many packages in nixpkgs just fetch tarballs or clone git repos, and maintaining them can be entirely automated.

>>20721 There's also that schizo John Ringer who works at said military contract place who regularly dunks on the nixpkgs retards and is creating his own hard fork a nix package store that's architecturally different than nixpkgs. Nixpkgs is fine for the average end user. It just works but the architecture is so robust that people can just come by and create their own version of it if the people who maintain the repo decide to revolt.

>>17173 (OP) Used to use NixOS but got fed up with it because almost every single time I'd update, something would start to compile from source and then fail or just be straight up broken. My favorite is when I had to pin the Nix tool to a specific version because newer ones would just core dump when ran (thank fuck for previous configs in the boot menu). Not to mention random shit failing due to expecting FHS, seemingly a gorillion different badly documented ways of doing something and the split between flakes and traditional configs. All of this coupled with my NEETdom ending just made me switch to a normalfag distro.

Nix as a development tool is incredible. I write a simple flake, put "use flake" in an .envrc, and my dependency problems are solved. I don't have to shit up my system with git repos or AUR packages that I'll only use once. The only thing keeping me away from NixOS at this point is the tedium of setting it up.