Is anyone using NixOS as their daily driver?

Midas@ymmel.nl to Linux@lemmy.ml – 202 points –

I'm currently running Arch and it's great, but I'm noticing I'm not staying on the ball in regards to updates. I've been reading a bit about Nix and NixOS and thinking of trying it as my daily driver. I've got a Lenovo x1 xtreme laptop, I don't do much gaming (except OSRS), use firefox, jetbrains stuff, bitwarden, remmina, obsidian, and docker.

Is anyone running NixOS as their daily? How are you liking it and are there any pitfalls / stuff you wish you knew before?

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I recently played with the AUR on Debian using Distrobox, could that be used on NixOS too?

When I experimented around with NixOS, I never got a chance to play around with Distrobox specifically - however I did use Podman with no issue, which is what Distrobox uses behind the scenes so I suspect it should work.

There's also a Distrobox package in Nixpkgs which further affirms my belief in that.

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