artemist on Nostr: I'm kind of scared what kind of response I'll get, but what distro should i switch ...
I'm kind of scared what kind of response I'll get, but what distro should i switch to?
I've been using nixos for a few years since having my system configuration synced between machines is nice, but it's gotten really annoying. My system (using nixos-unstable) won't be able to build for months because packages are constantly broken and I do not have the energy to deal with nixos people much more than I'm paid to.
My plan is to try another distro on a machine but keep using nix shells and do some nixbsd dev. I'll try to transition dotfiles to some non-nix thing instead of home manager.
I've thought through a few options, but i'm not too certain with any:
wait for lixpkgs: No idea when that will happen, and doesn't fix some of the nix annoyances
Debian: Not great hardware support, I've had to work around packages in the past because they're so old
Ubuntu: Do not want to deal with canonical
Fedora: I've had good experiences in the past, but I'm always suspicious of having to use epel for things
Arch: I've used it before, but it feels too taped together
macOS: Macs are expensive, and I always spend a ton of time fighting the OS trying to get e.g. gdb running
FreeBSD: Poor laptop support, though I do have a fondness for it
buildroot: I've joked about this, but I think it would be far too much work for a desktop system
Gentoo: Haven't used it much, but apparently it supports systemd and binary packages now. Feels like the most nixos-like normal distro (e.g. can do patches, share packages across systems, cross-build embedded systems)
I'm currently leaning towards trying gentoo, but does anyone have other ideas?
I've been using nixos for a few years since having my system configuration synced between machines is nice, but it's gotten really annoying. My system (using nixos-unstable) won't be able to build for months because packages are constantly broken and I do not have the energy to deal with nixos people much more than I'm paid to.
My plan is to try another distro on a machine but keep using nix shells and do some nixbsd dev. I'll try to transition dotfiles to some non-nix thing instead of home manager.
I've thought through a few options, but i'm not too certain with any:
wait for lixpkgs: No idea when that will happen, and doesn't fix some of the nix annoyances
Debian: Not great hardware support, I've had to work around packages in the past because they're so old
Ubuntu: Do not want to deal with canonical
Fedora: I've had good experiences in the past, but I'm always suspicious of having to use epel for things
Arch: I've used it before, but it feels too taped together
macOS: Macs are expensive, and I always spend a ton of time fighting the OS trying to get e.g. gdb running
FreeBSD: Poor laptop support, though I do have a fondness for it
buildroot: I've joked about this, but I think it would be far too much work for a desktop system
Gentoo: Haven't used it much, but apparently it supports systemd and binary packages now. Feels like the most nixos-like normal distro (e.g. can do patches, share packages across systems, cross-build embedded systems)
I'm currently leaning towards trying gentoo, but does anyone have other ideas?