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Arch and Gentoo users reading about NixOS (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I really like most of it and started to daily drive NixOS a few months ago, but there's still some very valid criticisms to be made. Lack of documentation is probably the biggest one

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

i would like to give it another try at some point because it seems like it will probably feel really nice to use once i get the hang of it. but the lack of documentation is pretty rough.

i also think that for nixos, a lack of documentation is a much more difficult thing to overcome. other distros can piggyback off the arch documentation for most things, but that doesn’t work as well for nixos.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

that's certainly true. I'd like to help improve the documentation, but unfortunately I'm still pretty green at Nix myself, so there's not much I can do at the moment. But it seems to be picking up speed recently, so there's hope that with more people better documentation is coming soon