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Introduction to Nix & NixOS
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I use it for reproducible builds in packaging and CI/CD pipelines because...that's what it's made for.
Got a lot of use for DE and other gui related modules in that usecase? Are you spinning up KDE to build a container? Did you write to the devs that they remove the installation wizard for desktop use? Did they accidentally add all of the non-reproducible imperative commands to nix?
Get over yourself. It's a great distro for desktop use, and I seriously don't get why you're foaming at the mouth because people are using it differently than you...
Lol wut?? No.
No there is no desktop in a packaging, CI, or CD pipelines 🤣🤣🤣
What on earth are you talking about.
But there is in nixos you donkey...
No...you CAN install one if you'd like, you waste of space. Just like any other Linux OS, all packages aside from the kernel are optional. Hell, Nix didn't have anything but the templating setup when I started it using it forever ago. They didn't have any packages available for any sort of GUI at all.
Get outta here with your uninformed idiocy.