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NixOS is the endgame of distrohopping - Joshua Blais (joshblais.com)
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[–] chasehainey@mastodon.world 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

@ruffsl I wanted #nixos to be my distro. It really is great... Until you need random things. I won't say anything bad about it, however, it doesn't work for me.

[–] ruffsl@programming.dev 9 points 2 months ago

As soon as you veer off the beaten path, things can get really tricky.

For med tech and robotics development, I'm still using Debian via docker because the surrounding ecosystems for those software communities are so tightly integrated with the Debian.

[–] adingbatponder@fosstodon.org -3 points 2 months ago

@chasehainey @ruffsl Try 'claude code' to jiggle config. (Claude works directly on your files at the command line under your supervision. Fabulous, fast, fun, fixing flakes.)