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Like I said in my comment, it isn't for everyone - it's a tradeoff.
I made a collage about my frustrations with iPad a couple years ago ( https://imgur.com/a/CQwApt8 from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22627889 , 2020) and since then:
- One of the accessories I showed in there, gnarbox , a second computer for ipad photo workflows, went out of business and supposedly the app required to make it's main features work is no longer available: https://petapixel.com/2021/12/29/gnarbox-may-be-dead-so-buye...
- Ish still requires a hack to run in the background: https://github.com/ish-app/ish/wiki/Running-in-background (maybe things are changing now with today's announcements?)
- UTM has a number of ios-specific limitations: https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/wiki/Known%20Issues#ios-specif...
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With NixOS you declare your entire OS in a script, something along the lines of Ansible or Terraform. This can even go as far as configuring your user settings, with dotfiles, gsettings, or various other things (often the modules will expose settings in the native nix language and write out the yaml/toml/json/whatever else that is required). The idiomatic way to do this is to use the built-in NixOS configuration (under /etc/nixos) to set up system-level things: mounts, drivers, users, system-level packages (e.g. greetd+sway), and things that change rarely. You then use a project called home-manager to manage everything inside your user configuration (including applications you use), which itself uses nix. By separating it like this, I can sync my entire experience between my laptop and desktop with Git.
I am currently flighting using a separate "nix flake" for both, which allows you to pin versions of packages (with a lockfile). It also allows you to easily pull in other repositories. It hasn't really taken off yet, and the NUR (Nix User Repository, analogous to the amazing Arch User Repository) is still in infancy. I'd offer up my nix configs as an example, but I am currently in the "make it work" example. I have been yoinking several great ideas from this fantastic nix repo: https://github.com/ymatsiuk/nixos-config
The main challenge with Nix is that it doesn't have an FHS: there is no `/usr`, `/bin`, and what you would typically expect. The advantage here is that conflicting dependency versions are not a problem. The problem is that you need to either build any binaries yourself, or wrap them in an FHS helper.
Nix has a virtualenv system `nix develop` and it's very powerful, especially for teams.
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Like I said in my comment, it isn't for everyone - it's a tradeoff.
I made a collage about my frustrations with iPad a couple years ago ( https://imgur.com/a/CQwApt8 from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22627889 , 2020) and since then:
- One of the accessories I showed in there, gnarbox , a second computer for ipad photo workflows, went out of business and supposedly the app required to make it's main features work is no longer available: https://petapixel.com/2021/12/29/gnarbox-may-be-dead-so-buye...
- Ish still requires a hack to run in the background: https://github.com/ish-app/ish/wiki/Running-in-background (maybe things are changing now with today's announcements?)
- UTM has a number of ios-specific limitations: https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/wiki/Known%20Issues#ios-specif...
I would recommend avoiding it as it is abandonware but that has been possible for a long time via stash which is still actively developed https://github.com/ywangd/stash