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I switched from Nixos to void Linux. Here's my experience so far.
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In my experience, doing small changes to your nix config when using nix flakes seems to be faster. For me it only rebuilds everything when I run nix flake update before running sudo nixos-rebuild switch so it seems faster because it only does the thing that I changed instead of updating everything.
Also this in your configure.nix:
This will create an entry in the nix registry pointing to your currently installed version and stop
nix search
from constantly updating the package list.Are there any tradeoffs I need to accept to use this?
Not really, but you should update your flake every once in a while to get the latest packages