I just finished moving all of my servers off NixOS and I'm finally breathing a sigh of relief.
Deterministic systems are a cool idea, but we're just not there yet. The headaches and pain involved in maintaining these systems and warping the software to obey are too great.
Everything in NixOS works, until it doesn't. And when it doesn't, woe be unto you.
Deterministic systems are a cool idea, but we're just not there yet. The headaches and pain involved in maintaining these systems and warping the software to obey are too great.
Everything in NixOS works, until it doesn't. And when it doesn't, woe be unto you.