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Nix Release 2.24 (releases.nixos.org)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You reckon? I'm on NixOS and it feels like we tend to get things ahead of a number of other distros - especially Debian- or Ubuntu-based ones.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Debian stable is an incredibly low bar in terms of new packages. I'm on NixOS, too, if that matters, and I don't have a strong opinion on how fresh packages are, although I do find it far from ideal in other areas ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Oh yeah I 100% agree, and IMO the lowness of that bar just strengthens my point. Even in the state that it's in, nobody would suggest that Debian or Ubuntu was dying (except this guy, I guess, since he did so above) - so saying that Nix, which is so much more up-to-date, is dying is laughable. I really like the graph posted a little further up in the thread, actually, I didn't realise that the difference was that massive!

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago

Arch Linux does a better job mostly... although Nix does have more packages. Alpine Linux actually seems to do better than most in keeping packages updated.