Yeah, NixOS really does not have good documentation to get you started. But once you have a system installed and you start tweaking it, it’s pretty easy.
I would argue that NixOS is the most up to date OS, though. obviously you don’t get new software on the stable channels, but you can always pull individual packages from unstable if needed without breaking the whole system. Most software on unstable updates insanely fast, even faster than Arch Linux. The multiple days of delay for Hydra to run is a bit annoying, though.
It is frustrating when some of the more niche software doesn’t get updated on time, though, one of the downsides of having the single biggest Linux package repository in the world. It’s made worse by the fact that you can’t just install a 3rd party deb or rpm without some know-how.
Yeah, NixOS really does not have good documentation to get you started. But once you have a system installed and you start tweaking it, it’s pretty easy.
I would argue that NixOS is the most up to date OS, though. obviously you don’t get new software on the stable channels, but you can always pull individual packages from unstable if needed without breaking the whole system. Most software on unstable updates insanely fast, even faster than Arch Linux. The multiple days of delay for Hydra to run is a bit annoying, though.
It is frustrating when some of the more niche software doesn’t get updated on time, though, one of the downsides of having the single biggest Linux package repository in the world. It’s made worse by the fact that you can’t just install a 3rd party deb or rpm without some know-how.