ikidd@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 5 months agoThree Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Uglypierrezemb.frexternal-linkmessage-square106linkfedilinkarrow-up1186arrow-down17
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minus-squarefeddup@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·5 months agoLoved nixOS but couldn’t install PIA VPN gui and disliked the workarounds. Also doing .net dev was more awkward than I liked so went back to Arch and wrote some scripts to install all the packages I want instead. Love the idea of nixOS though.
minus-squarefeddup@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 months agoI have no idea how and given there’s been a lot of people asking the same thing I don’t think it’s as trivial as packaging some binaries.
Loved nixOS but couldn’t install PIA VPN gui and disliked the workarounds. Also doing .net dev was more awkward than I liked so went back to Arch and wrote some scripts to install all the packages I want instead. Love the idea of nixOS though.
Package your own if you need it
I have no idea how and given there’s been a lot of people asking the same thing I don’t think it’s as trivial as packaging some binaries.