Comment by mazambazz
4 days ago
> Trying to hack on other people's junk with NixOS is just asking for pain.
Yeah, but being that Nix is essentially a giant wrapper for the system, that kind of goes without saying. The other side of the coin is that, using other people's Nix junk is extremely easy. Far easier than what any other distro could hope to achieve.
My favorite example is simple-nixos-mailserver. Try passing someone a dovecot, postfix, and openssh configurations/instructions in any other distro and see how long it takes before they mess up, or more likely, give up.
Whereas with simple-nixos-mailserver, you're guaranteed to get something to work, essentially right out of the box.
agreed. Like I said, if what you want to do is within NixOS's well supported wheelhouse, it's great to have a fully declarative OS, that includes application configuration.