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All I wanted to do was just watch pr0n... (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] iopq@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Don't install NixOS. You won't distrhop anymore because you can easily keep switching DEs/WMs and all the other packages

[-] someguywithacomputer@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

What's the advantage of NixOS? The thing about package isolation to overcome dependency issues sounds attractive but surely that comes with at least some kind of disadvantage.

[-] iopq@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

The disadvantage is there's no global libraries. If you want to run a plain executable you need to steam-run it instead of just launching it and it will create an environment similar to Ubuntu

The advantage is you just run things and they work. I heard there was some packaging issue with hyprland because of different library versions, but it never affected NixOS because there's no global library

[-] DriftinGrifter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 months ago

nixos sucks in a lot of ways sadly all non declerative os are automatically worse

[-] iopq@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

But it sucks in ways you can always find a solution for. You're never like "oh so these two packages have incompatible dependencies and I can't have both"

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