I was thinking about going immutable for a long time and now I’m choosing a distro to hop to.
My question is: what are good immutable distros other than Fedora Silverblue spins, UBlue family and NixOS?
Maybe someone uses/used any? What is/was your experience with it?

  • SexyVetra@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    4 months ago

    Don’t use NixOS.

    Source:

    • I love NixOS
    • I use it as my daily driver on multiple machines.
    • I’ve contributed both to NixOS and surrounding ecosystem.

    Evidence:

    • Learning cliff rather than curve because:
    • The state of the documentation should have been unacceptable a decade ago. Very unacceptable now.
    • The tooling is also over a decade behind.
    • Governance leaves a lot to be desired.

    These things are getting better but not fast enough that I’d recommend it.

    If you really want to look into nix, use it on another distro and see if you’re still interested after getting a flake-based devshell together. (impossible challenge: do it for a python project that relies on complex dependencies like transformers)

    • pinchcramp@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      4 months ago

      Governance leaves a lot to be desired.

      Genuine question from somebody who’s out of the loop and doesn’t use NixOS: How does this affect your day to day using the distro?

      • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1·
        4 months ago

        Basically you hemorrhage contributors because fuck this shit and then core components get more and more behind.

    • JustMarkov@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      4 months ago

      Don’t use NixOS.

      I don’t like NixOS very much. This whole governance scandal has turned me away from it even more, tbh.