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Three Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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Three Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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A review of Nix/NixOS after using it on all my machines for three years. I'll cover what works, what doesn't, and why it's the first OS that's stuck with me.

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Activating services is the specific task NixOS is great at, you can just add it and it downloads the packages and starts it and generates the configs
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  Yeah, I’ll probably switch eventually I’m just trying to talk myself out of it because I don’t have the time to learn right now

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