I start: the most important thing is not the desktop, it’s the package manager.

  • @flashgnash@lemm.ee
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    81 year ago

    Installed distrobox on NixOS because I was worried being limited to only nixpkgs and have not touched it once lol

    Same goes for the windows VM except for the time I needed to run excel macros for work

    • @null@slrpnk.net
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      61 year ago

      Worried about being limited to only the biggest selection of packages available. Does not compute.

    • @rutrumA
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      21 year ago

      Thats been a fear of mine moving to nixos. Glad to know it’ll cover most of my software needs.

      • @babeuh@lemmy.world
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        21 year ago

        Here’s a graph, it should be fine for your package needs: Graph

        This is not totally accurate because nixpkgs also packages some packages that wouldn’t be in the system package manager like Python and Haskell packages. Excluding those it’s pretty much the same as the AUR

    • I did on my Nix, there was a package in Nixpkgs that was outdated, so I had the opportunity to use distrobox for that, at leqst temporarily until they update the package.