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Why aren't more people using NixPKGs?
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this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2024
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Not to mention that the most common problems it solves can be solved by installing packages from source in a prefix like /opt or ~/.apps and symlinking them from a central place like /opt/.system or ~/.apps/.system or whatever.
I had a bash script 15 years ago that automated most of this. (Which gradually fell out of use when Arch and makepkg came along, but I digress.)
I can't help but feel like nix is a solution looking for a problem and solving it in a way that appeals to a certain kind of hobbyist but not so much to any practical purposes. Otherwise it would have been adopted more widely by now.