Posting this from S4L right now :)
Just noticed the notification about 15 mins ago.
I've been using Manjaro for the last 2 years, it I'll admit to finding NixOS interesting.
A couple of areas I have yet researched, though:
- Is there a UI for the package manager?
I realize that Nix is really powerful, and have even installed it and tinkered a bit with it. But it would be nice to be able to have a UI to quickly search and install packages of interest, and leave the CLI for the more nuanced package activities.
I've got quite a few years of experience using yum and apt. The former, about 20 years now. I use pacman mainly to do updates, and yay to install packages pacman doesn't know about. It even in Manjaro, sometimes it's just more convenient to use the UI package manager.
Learning my way around Nix... well, were back to the problem of infrequency. Use it once a week, and only to do the one thing, then everything else is back to googling. If there was a UI package manager to use most times, leaving the CLI for the more nuanced activities, then....
- Is there a tool for adapting/installing RPM or DEB packages?
I've had occasion to install something on Manjaro which was only available as a set of RPMs (try/buy graphics software). I managed to get there eventually, thanks to Google.
quaddo
joined 1 year ago
Downloaded for future reference, thanks
OT, but I die a little inside when I see some writing in a book. I'm sure in this case it was probably a student wanting to highlight, but still.