Anonymous 05/29/26(Fri)07:11:45 No. 108932929 >>108932703 fragmentation and version/dependency hell is kinda inevitable in linux based systems complaining about it is kinda of like 'why is there so many distros' like if there was only one distro it would be shit. linux has diversity but thats a double edged sword. nix solves the main problems of linux package/version fuckery. because of the hash-based nix store you can have multiple versions of everything. this is better than the winblows >'download shady installer files' model and the >'add third party repos whose packages sometimes have dependency hell clusterfucks with the packages from the official repos' but you're right its added complexity you have to learn. but the stock nixos configuration you get after installing is a fairly good working point-release configuration in a single file, to install packages you just add them to environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [ docker docker-compose git openssl # sbctl # for secureboot ]; (copied from one of my configs) and run nixos rebuild-switch. basically in it's simplest form its no different than a regular point-release distro except you add/delete packages from a text file instead cli arguments and mostly shit just werks. it becomes complex if you want to run it as a rolling release with flakes, home-manager and all that stuff which you can do gradually and as needed. its not that hard to learn when you can just use a chatbot to point you where you do the thing you want to do and it very quickly starts feeling a lot more organized than traditional distros.