If you've hung out in Linux enthusiast circles lately, you'll have heard whispers that Arch Linux is no longer hot product. Instead, all the cool kids are using something called NixOS. Since I bricked my Debian setup in an unfortunate accident involving compiling from source, I decided to give NixOS …

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.

    • XTL@sopuli.xyz
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      5 months ago

      I have actually done that once. Somehow managed to make install glibc over libc5 or something like that.

      That was a while ago, though.

    • fd93@programming.devOP
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      5 months ago

      Debian really doesn’t like installing different versions of GUI libraries & their dependencies.

      I really like Pantheon Files.

      • Successful_Try543@feddit.de
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        5 months ago

        I know, I’ve once messed around to install a newer QT framework which was required by some package I’ve downloaded directly. Did you install them from the repos or manually copied the files into place? At first I thought the issues were due to compiling source code, not installing conflicting libraries.

        • fd93@programming.devOP
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          5 months ago

          I actually can’t remember as it would have been 6+ months ago now. The issue is probably fixed already by the Debian maintainers / Elementary Team / both.

          Likely something with Meson build / apt not playing nicely.