• brnaftreadn@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I’ve never tried these “distroless” systems before. Curious about these setups. Have you tried nix pkg manager in place of brew?

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      2 months ago

      I’ve used NixOS, wasn’t that big of a fan. I certainly love the idea, but not the execution. Fedora Atomic just comes out of the box as a more complete, configured system that’s easier to understand.

      I have been meaning to use Nix on Atomic, but the problem is that since / is immutable, Nix cannot create /nix and so doesn’t work properly. But there are workarounds for that issue, I just haven’t tried them yet.

      Nix certainly fixes the PATH issues of homebrew since it has its unique linking system.