[rvdca]

I feel that one day I should write about this curse that NixOS brings into your life when you start enjoying it : you cannot go back to different systems but at the same time you (at least I) cannot vouch and recommend it to others as the languages and constructs (Flakes with a space or an utf-8 character in the path ? Here is a rabbit hole you can go down with) are just so byzantine and painful to work with but oh boy do they work... A crystal prison, nice but with sharp corners everywhere...

[rhaps0dy]

It's the same as Emacs for me. I don't want to leave it but I don't recommend it to anyone.

[lovelyviking]

Why you don’t recommend it to anyone? May be a proper recommendation is what I need to really be engaged with it ? The same for Nix.

Please more details about the practical benefits because I kind of see in general why it can be good but there is still certain lack of the real practical demonstrations from those who use it daily.

[ledauphin]

this is exactly the software that came to mind for me.

[pxc]

You mean like this? https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/the-curse-of-nixos

You should still write your commentary on the idea, though!

[miniBill]

Thanks for the link! I definitely agree with the author, NixOS is the only system that does The Right Thing but I cannot recommend it to anyone. I mean, I technically have recommended it to one person, but he's an ex-Arch user so... does it really count? :D

[foota]

Heh, I love a good dig at GCL.

[vczf]

Funny you mention spaces in flake paths. I was hit by that bug and bumped the PR to address it, and it might be getting merged in soon!

[paulddraper]

That's the problem ... So much time to a pleasing but inefficient payoff

[toomanydoubts]

Or even worst: when you cannot switch out of it but you're not smart to package proprietary software that's not available in the repositories.

[nektro]

there's always not using flakes