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Damn, that's a wild ride.
I'm honestly not sure how useful that flakehub is, and I feel the same dislike as I do for like AUR. First time I'm seeing it though.
Honestly, I've only ever used it a few times when I see that a repo has it. I checked out some of them, and with barely no nix language knowledge I was able to roughly understand what's going on, but I doubt I'd be able to make it without a template or LLM.
I'll keep devbox in mind if I ever need that functionality.
Me neither, I completely skipped over it, but it sounds interesting, maybe it wouldn't be as wonky as the AUR since it's Nix at least, idk
That's actually great! Maybe I'll try those as well, since sooner or later I'll have to learn the Nix language anyways and keeping a purer system is always a good thing if possible.
Good luck with devbox btw
edited: how tf did I end up ordering the text like that?
That's for sure, since nix handles dependencies a lot better than pacman. But I meant that due to the sheer size of nixpkgs, and the way you can add a repo to your flakes, there's no real need for it. But that's just pure speculation.
I think a sensible progression is: nix + home-manager -> flakes -> develop -> nixOS
You build on previous knowledge without getting overwhelmed. I tried using guixos without ever using guix or nix, and it's really not nice when you have to spend a week trying to figure out how to do something that takes you 5 mins in a regular distro. It even took me a few attempts to get started with nix simply because the docs are abysmal, almost all info is on nixos, and home-manager is rarely mentioned.
It sounds like it makes sense, but I'm not knowledgeable enough yet, I just found this as a maybe explanation https://flakehub.com/docs/faq#flake-versions I'd have to dig more in the rest of the ecosystem
I can already see a good meme shaping up here, and I'm all for it XD
I really agree it might be the easiest way in, I'm already standing on the shoulders of giants having waited so long to start, so I guess I was lucky enough to skip the official docs
That's pretty interesting, I'll need to give it a try.
lmaoo, please post that on !linuxmemes@lemmy.world too!
https://programming.dev/post/14020506