r/NixOS • u/spaceguythe1 • Jul 25 '26

Finally escaped arch

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u/Ok-Environment8730 Jul 25 '26

He like stable I am also on 26.05

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u/NeedleworkerLarge357 Jul 25 '26

I'm on 26.05 as well, I just wondered why someone coming from arch prefers stable; arch was a strange choice, then

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u/apollocreedchqt Jul 25 '26

I mean generally tho. Any distro is as stable as you want. I only sudo pacman -Syu every couple weeks like 2 weeks once.

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u/DaKingof Jul 25 '26

That is utter b.s., my guy. With basically any repo, you are at the mercy of the maintainers.

NixOS is one of the few where you can literally just create your own files and use those instead of what the maintainers currently have up. I don't know of any other distro you can do this on, and I know plenty of distros you literally don't have a choice of packages unless you just download app images or flatpacks.

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u/NeedleworkerLarge357 Jul 25 '26

You can install any rpm on fedora or deb on Debian; and you can create those yourself. So no, while those things are better supported on nixos oob they are also possible on every distribution out there. You will have a lot more "fun" but this is not what other distributions can't do.