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?

  • quentangle@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Another daily driver user here (for about a year now). NixOS on all hardware that can run it (desktop, servers). Nix-darwin/home-manager/nix-on-droid everywhere else.

    I don’t see myself going back to anything else, it’s great.

    • flashgnash@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      Just having a look at nix on droid, from what I gather it’s basically just termux but with the nix package manager right?

      • quentangle@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        More or less, yep. It is integrated well though. For instance, you configure the terminal font with your nix config instead of setting it in the termux theme app.

        • flashgnash@lemm.ee
          1·
          1 year ago

          Oh sweet, would I be a complete maniac for trying to run a DE with and xrdping in from Android as I’ve heard people do with base termux sometimes?