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Jump from Arch to NixOS? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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As the title implies, should I do it? I love Arch so far, and I can fix most issues that pop out. However, I sometimes wish to start fresh without too much hassle, but I get a feeling NixOS isn't as mature as Arch.

Have any of you used both, and if so, what do you miss from Arch? What are you grateful for in NixOS?

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[–] inverimus@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I haven't used NixOS but it does sound interesting. From what I gather all you need is your configuration.nix file to rebuild the entire system the same as it was before. I think for sure the biggest thing I would miss is the AUR.

[–] colonial@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not a Nix user, but IIRC nixpkgs is actually bigger than the AUR by a long shot.

[–] inverimus@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

That is good to know, but if you are missing something it seems you need to package it yourself. I'm sure I could do that, just not sure I really want to be doing it.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

In practice it takes a long time to build a config for absolutely everything in your system at least from my experience of it

There are a few things I've not bothered to put in the config like wallpaper, gtk theme, macros (though I do want to put macros in declaratively because it feels like missing a limb not having them)

System setup wise you can completely wipe the machine and have it back up to where you left it in 20 mins or so

[–] ruination@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

Well nixpkgs and NUR should be big enough, and you can just quite literally use Nix to grab stuff from Github anyways.