I’m currently running Arch and it’s great, but I’m noticing I’m not staying on the ball in regards to updates. I’ve been reading a bit about Nix and NixOS and thinking of trying it as my daily driver. I’ve got a Lenovo x1 xtreme laptop, I don’t do much gaming (except OSRS), use firefox, jetbrains stuff, bitwarden, remmina, obsidian, and docker.
Is anyone running NixOS as their daily? How are you liking it and are there any pitfalls / stuff you wish you knew before?
I installed it last week. It’s been pretty chill so far. I love the fact that my system is fully reproducible and version managed by git. Everything I need has been available. It feels a bit like the AUR to me: I need something, I look in nixpkgs and it’s already there.
One thing I do find annoying is dependencies for work projects. It took me about an hour to figure out that some library our rust project depended on, expected some specific version of gdk or something, and that’s why the project wouldn’t compile. But apart from that, very nice and would definitely recommend!