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Nixos has been extremely easy to get working for most stuff. If you stray off the trail at all, it gets complicated. Possible! But complicated for my little brain.
Development seems to be a bit of bite in the ass.
Intellij does have a package but for some reason plugins use often some random binaries and those do not work well with nixos.
Also getting always the right dependencies for the current project was for me difficult to learn.
For my dev environment Iβve had great success combining home-manager and their integration with
https://mise.jdx.dev/
Sure, it doesnβt quite fit the nix philosophy perfectly, but everything is still in my home.nix file and my home directory, and and I can swap tool versions on the fly and direct IntelliJ to their locations pretty easily
Embrace the
--impureThe problem is, no one on Nix is going to stay on the trail. We are all there since we left it long ago.
still weeks ahead of the gentoo user
I had 0 issues with Gentoo.
And it updates in a manner of hours on 3700X (LibreOffice and Firefox are the worst offenders).
Hmmm I was annoyed that my slow internet slowed down my arch update by 6 minutes.
I have very fast internet, so no waiting there.
But fuck LLVM and Clang.
Yeah, a base setup that works is pretty easy. It's after that where it gets tedious. To me it sounds nice in theory, but I don't think it's my cup of tea.