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Why aren't more people using NixPKGs?
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I'm going to go against the grain and say that the Nix and Guix package managers are very good, but they really belong in their respective distros where they're a core part of the system. That'd be Guix System for Guix and NixOS for Nix.
They may have advantages for a foreign distro too, but they are lesser (Guix System can boot into a backup of the system before the last update, for example, but that advantage doesn't exist on, say, Debian.
Also, can we agree to not recommend these systems to new users for the time being? While they're very powerful, they're absolutely designed for power users, and until they're more polished and they have fancy GUIs and stuff for installation and package management, I think it'd be best to keep recommending normal distros like Debian for now.
You can do rollbacks if you're using something like home-manager on a foreign distribution. It's just a bit more janky admittedly.
Yeah, why would I ever want to have bleeding edge userland packages on Debian? Nobody needs something like that or the option to rollback the entire update or pin specific versions of packages...
Did anyone do it in this thread? OP is literally just asking about a list of packages to home-manage. Beginners can most certainly handle it if they don't need a gui to update their system.
No, nobody did mention it, I was just making a side-point.
I also said there are advantages to Guix/Nix on foreign distros.