Wow, I tried NixOS at one point but I couldn’t keep it as a daily driver because it didn’t play nicely with my conda-based dev environment.
I knew nix like guix (another failed experiment I wanted to make my daily driver) could be run as a package manager but I had no idea it could cross-compile and copy in one command!
These are static builds right?
Other packages do this though, and builds are easy to automate. Is it because it’s not stable software, and so hasn’t passed the usual unstable, testing, stabile repo vetting process? If so, I’m surprised, it really looks mature.
Ah cross-compiling is something I hadnt considered… do you have a preferred toolchain for this?
I agree with you to some extent, but the problem is that these kinds of posts encourage others, create needless debate over trivial topics and generally get messy quite quickly.
Your solution of “just walk away” works if absolutely no one gets triggered. Problem is, everyone has their trigger topic.
Gives new meaning to the word mastication