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ikidd@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 days ago

Three Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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Three Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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ikidd@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 days ago
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A review of Nix/NixOS after using it on all my machines for three years. I'll cover what works, what doesn't, and why it's the first OS that's stuck with me.
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    If you download a binary you can just steam-run it and it just works

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      ?

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        This command will just run an executable file on nix. Normally only executables which are installed from the package manager will work.

        appimage-run is another option. Which can be used to run, you guessed it, appimages

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          But appimages will complain about unmet dependencies, so usually they don’t work

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