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Introduction to Nix & NixOS
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this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2025
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Yeah but people are still capable of using Arch and imo NixOS is much easier than Arch. Once you figure out how to do something on NixOS you don't have to go through all the troubleshooting/learning over and over. With Arch it's an active investment of your time all the time.
So if people are capable of using Arch, then they can handle NixOS. NixOS is hard but it's not world ending hard.
That's how learning works.