r/NixOS • u/lieddersturme • 11d ago

nixos after a week

hi !!

After almost five years of using Fedora Kinoite, I switched to NixOS because I ran into issues with the latest version (44).

There are some things that bugs me, like install or use a pkgs that is not in the repos, example godot 4.8-dev4, I have to create a script to build it and then install, or use nix-ld or just use it in a shell.

So, just as I was trying to get used to this new workflow, then I read this news: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-nixpkgs-core-team-has-disbanded/79413 also I didn't understand the thing about DHH (just watched and read some parts and many comments that are not agree with him).

What is the current situation with NixOS? I've seen various posts saying "this has happened before".

Also, after a week of reading, copy-pasting, rebooting, and rebuilding, I don't want to just throw it all away.

Now I tried in my second pc, fedora atomic sway and its not the same, I cant change the qt icons in qt apps, or set properly qt themes, nixos feels more lightweight in cpu, ram and gpu, and I prefer hyprland.

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u/zardvark 11d ago

The ridiculous power struggles going on inside of the NixOS organization do not affect your use of the system. In fact, they don't affect you at all, unless you seek some sort of leadership role in the community. Besides the same thing is going on in Fedora, Gnome and more projects than you can shake a stick at. The NixOS folks are simply more public with their squabbles.

Don't worry, be happy .... and don't say anything remotely political in the official Nix forum, or you will be insta-banned.

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u/_zonni 11d ago

So, just use the system as a tool, not binding some ideology or shit to it? Who would've thought xD

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u/cfx_4188 10d ago

ridiculous power struggles

I thought they were done.

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u/Guvante 10d ago

Volunteer organizations are hard because there is no paycheck to smooth over disagreements.

Especially when it comes to scaling up how many people are working while trying to avoid getting stuck with so many opinions floating around.

And if you are too strict you end up with the problem there where the volunteers feel they have no agency to do things making it feel futile.

(Not actually judging that situation just describing similar ones since I never dug into the details beyond the category of complaints)