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Three Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
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this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2025
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Sure, some packages are outdated. But in terms of percentage of up-to-date packages, it's (AFAIK) the best out of any distro repo. And that's perhaps even more impressive of a feat when realizing it also sports the biggest repo. For actual stats: https://repology.org/repositories/statistics/pnewest
Wait how does Nix Unstable have a better score than the AUR? With four times less maintainers? That's really impressive, especially considering how much more simple Arch packages are to make.
Because you end up feeling unsatisfied with running the thing until you package it. I don't even understand the Nix language and I still messed around with a couple of packages