tldr:
- fucking with configs for hours regularly
- pip & venv doesn't work on nixos
- DE broke when installed new DM
- not much community support
this post was submitted on 02 May 2024
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I didn't realize pip and venv didn't work... that's a pretty big deal breaker for a lot of people, myself included.
pip and venv are working, but packages that require compiling or ship binaries by itself usually won't work out of the box. They depend on gcc or libopenssl to be globally available: the whole gist of Nix not doing 😅
I've found devenv.sh to be most convenient way to handle such projects. You can define the dependencies for a project. It has explicit python/venv/requirements.txt/poetry support. It works for NixOS, but also other distros and MacOS. Very convenient to share and lock development tools and libraries across a team.
More serious than this is the rare occasions Nix packages conflict with each other. While Nix separates dependencies, it doesn't separate them as absolutely as a full container system like Docker. Therefore it is possible, albeit unlikely, to end up with conflicts between versions of installed libraries.
Never tried it but thanks for dispelling the hype. What a meme OS.