NixOS - what are your thoughts?
by max.b from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5R07Y)
(Side note: NixOS deserves its own subforum, obviously. It's more popular than most distros with their own subforums here)
What do you think about NixOS? What was your experience with it? Any reasons to prefer it to Debian Stable?
Personally, I think the idea of "reproducible systems" is great. Also I kind of know (but don't use) Haskell, so learning NixOS's config language should be easy. But, it just seems strange that you need to learn a programming language to use an OS. Also, some people are saying the security is not that great (hearsay). But their Security Team is just 2 people, and I don't know if they are working on this full-time or during lunch breaks or what.
What do you think about NixOS? What was your experience with it? Any reasons to prefer it to Debian Stable?
Personally, I think the idea of "reproducible systems" is great. Also I kind of know (but don't use) Haskell, so learning NixOS's config language should be easy. But, it just seems strange that you need to learn a programming language to use an OS. Also, some people are saying the security is not that great (hearsay). But their Security Team is just 2 people, and I don't know if they are working on this full-time or during lunch breaks or what.