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Gentoo or LFS?
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Can I chime in for NixOS? Give it a shot. Truly next level.
Better to go with Lix, imo. NixOS had a controversy surrounding sponsorship of American warfare industry.
How does the documentation and community support differ? Sometimes I can get lost in nix or any OS. But forums and troubleshooting matters a lot to me.
Second NixOS. I'm curious as to whether Gentoo does much that NixOS doesn't do, aside from not using systemd and not having a world-readable store.
I believe nixos is superior. Especially on the package manager side. NixOS supports almost all packages for linux and far surpasses even the AUR on arch Linux.
You can use systemd with Gentoo. it's more customizable and has a better package manager (imo) and better documentation. For regular desktop use I think NixOS makes more sense, even if I detest the language.
More customizable isn't necessarily better if you have no goals in mind, either way.
I run neither on my "main" machine.
Rather go with guix os which actually is based on a sane language and has stronger security/reproducibility measures. Not to mention a much more pleasant community
How does this compare to nix, vs lix? I didn't know of guixos.