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Why use immutable Linux ? And which one ?
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Been using nixos for a couple months now. It's nice and I really enjoy having all my configuration in one place and able to be version controlled. The down side being installing and configuring things take a bit more time to read how nix does it. I have it on a laptop that I've been playing with and removed it and put rocky for something else but I am 100% confident I can go right back to the way i had it.
So far the cons I'm seeing is installing vscode plugins are a little annoying and setting up to do python development on existing projects not very easy.
Python development shouldn’t be that hard I think. You can just drop a
shell.nix
that imports yourpyproject.toml
and then you can runnix develop
and have all your dependencies installed seamlessly with poetry2nix.I’m using neovim so I can’t really help you with vscode, sorry.
Have you tried Erasing your darlings with NixOS?
nix flake init -t templates#python sets up a nice environment using poetry.