There is one difference. Arch users will tell you, "I use Arch. You should try it." and NixOS users will tell you, "I use NixOS. You should probably not try it. You should try Arch."
My experience is different. I have a Twitter account that I don’t really use, and am a very active GitHub user. One time someone wrote a Twitter mentioning my Twitter handle with a link to my GitHub repo and commented something to the effect of “you should try out nix instead of what you’re doing in this repo.” Since my GitHub and Twitter handles are different, it means that they specifically google my Twitter account and call me out there. Creepy.
For me it's more often than not been the opposite. Although it's not just that you should use nix, you need to use their specific subflavor of nix features and anything else is heresy. It doesn't matter if the way it's documented is a mess, it makes sense to them.
I'm pretty sure that picking a religious denomination is less aggressive than hearing nixos users talk about how superior their system is.
I think NixOS users are generally happy with using it but don't want the support burden of explaining it to others on random internet forums when it's much more different from other distros than Arch is
jchw|1 year ago
KolenCh|1 year ago
noirscape|1 year ago
I'm pretty sure that picking a religious denomination is less aggressive than hearing nixos users talk about how superior their system is.
Macha|1 year ago