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    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    @gravitas_deficiency

    While it is definitely amazing for cluster deployments, Nix, the package manager behind the OS came out of the creators PhD thesis.

    It is quite a successful attempt to make builds completely reproducible. NixOS, is what you get when you build a distro around a package manager, rather than a package manager around a distro.

    I use it as my daily driver these days, and haven't had any issues with it for gaming, and due to the way its package manager works, I prefer it for development over anything else.

    It is the most stable and unbreakable system I have ever used, despite using the unstable repos. It also has the most up to date repo on linux. As far as unique packages, it is a close second to the AUR, but it is catching up.

    It isn't for everyone, and may be betamax to containerization when it comes to software development, but for the time being, I cannot see it going away anytime soon.