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Hey all, thought this might be of interest to some here.

Wrote about why I moved from NixOS to Ubuntu after using it for several months on my daily driver. Suspect that this take is likely to be kind of controversial and court claims of skill issues, which might even be true.

Let me know what you think.

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[–] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 77 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (10 children)

tldr:

  • fucking with configs for hours regularly
  • pip & venv doesn't work on nixos
  • DE broke when installed new DM
  • not much community support
[–] mortalic@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I didn't realize pip and venv didn't work... that's a pretty big deal breaker for a lot of people, myself included.

[–] frozencow@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

pip and venv are working, but packages that require compiling or ship binaries by itself usually won't work out of the box. They depend on gcc or libopenssl to be globally available: the whole gist of Nix not doing 😅

I've found devenv.sh to be most convenient way to handle such projects. You can define the dependencies for a project. It has explicit python/venv/requirements.txt/poetry support. It works for NixOS, but also other distros and MacOS. Very convenient to share and lock development tools and libraries across a team.

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