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Comparison between NixOS vs blendOS vs Vanilla OS: what to pick and why?
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this post was submitted on 12 Nov 2023
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What is your usecase?
This is the key question.
Daily driver;
Is there something that attracts you to NixOS for that purpose?
I've got Nix OS running on one of my computers, and honestly, haven't found it to be particularly notable for those usecases.
That's very interesting 👀
Why did you choose NixOS?
Mostly to learn about it's unique selling points.
I think it is very interesting in terms of the easy deployment of specific environments, and in terms of writing recipes for new packages.
Having said that, outside of these two rather niche areas for home use, I think it is rather unintuitive and offers no real advantages over more established players that offer a more polished experience, like Fedora for workstation and gaming use.
Dev work is not specific enough. Pip is a nightmare because it just wanted to modify folders that were read only and you never know what it wants to do to your system. Your experience may vary depending on how much the language package manager assumes about your system. If you're in a container, it will work perfectly, though
Firefox just works, and I installed Steam from nixpkgs and it worked after enabling a few settings. Then I just enabled Proton on every game and it works okay, with a few weird bugs sometimes (although I blame Gnome for messing up alt tabbing sometimes)
I have a similar use case on my laptop and love NixOS with hyprland