Why aren't systems like NixOS and GNU Guix more popular?

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    For instance there is no builtin way to search for config options (there is manix, yw), so new users will go to https://search.nixos.org a lot (and hopefully never see the "install with nix-env -iA nixos.foo" texts that are plastered all over the page as no one would ever want to do that unless they already know that command and choose to throw away all the advantages of their nice former declarative system anyway).

  • manjarno

    Reasons for which I don't use Manjaro anymore

  • That's a fluke, completely outside of Arch's control. Similarly to for whatever reason, I blame YT videos, newbies think that Manjaro is the way to go, especially when they want to do gaming. Manjarno and similar ought to have been repeated enough on this subreddit to dampen that development, but that's not the case at all.

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  • nix-configuration

    Nix configurations files for corytertel

  • I’ve used arch and it’s basically easy mode compared to nix imo. Have you not tried to do things such a derivations, overlays, etc for your configs? Flakes make things a bit easier but they’re also another thing you have to learn. I have a flake which controls my configs for both of my computers. https://github.com/corytertel/nix-configuration These are my configs

  • nixos-config

    My NixOS configurations (by Atemu)

  • They beauty of Nix modules is that you can split your config however you like and make all of them portable with an expressive language. Here's my desktop configuration that I can en-/disable based on whether a machine needs a desktop environment and here is the config that's applied in all my machines for example. I split them like that because that's the way I like them to be, not because the programs I run require me to.

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