Why don't more distributions have something like the AUR when it's the main reason why so many people use Arch Linux?
Why don't more distributions have something like the AUR when it's the main reason why so many people use Arch Linux?
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Fedora has COPR, Opensuse has the OBS (which also works for other distros), NixOS (my beloved) has overlays...
I've been on NixOS for about a week now and I can say I've got access to pretty much all of the packages I was using on Arch just from nixpkgs. I even found it quite easy to package stuff myself!
Same. Exactly. Packaging can be a bit more complex, but once you get it, it's great. There's even the NUR, but I havent used it.
The power of flakes is unparalleled
I am only using them and they seem very kino. I don't do anything complex with them, but, I like that adding new repos is as simple as reponame.url = repourl and then you can use its stuff after adding it to your outputs
What resources would you recommend for a complete beginner that wants to learn NixOS? I've been using it for a few weeks now, but I want to actually learn it and use the power of the nix language
nix.dev, the nix manual, the nixpkgs manual, https://ianthehenry.com/posts/how-to-learn-nix/
You'll also learn from reading nixpkgs code and other people's nix setups.