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Why aren't more people using NixPKGs?
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Of the future? They're a duplicate of what Apple was doing with software as far back as the mid 90s.
Every ounce of performance we squeeze out of our hardware is replaced with pounds of bloat like this.
It's fine for a utility or something you'll hardly ever need to use, but running every day software like this is a complete waste.
There's no bloat, nix are system packages
If there's no bloat why is there a garbage collector?
The garbage collector removes all packages/derivations that are not (transitively) used any more. So it is similar to apt-get autoremove. I don't think that classifies as bloat. You could just regularly run the garbage collector.