← Back to context Comment by ladyanita22 1 year ago Doesn't NixOS hog on your hardware? 3 comments ladyanita22 Reply Weetile 1 year ago It's very unlikely that performance would be hindered by a particular Linux distribution, but usually rather the desktop environment that it employs. NixOS with LXQt would run very differently to NixOS with GNOME. SuperSandro2000 1 year ago How?The package manager needs more RAM than the average other package manager because it is doing a lot more behind the back. ladyanita22 1 year ago Because it's source based and there's probably a ton of compilation in the background
Weetile 1 year ago It's very unlikely that performance would be hindered by a particular Linux distribution, but usually rather the desktop environment that it employs. NixOS with LXQt would run very differently to NixOS with GNOME.
SuperSandro2000 1 year ago How?The package manager needs more RAM than the average other package manager because it is doing a lot more behind the back. ladyanita22 1 year ago Because it's source based and there's probably a ton of compilation in the background
ladyanita22 1 year ago Because it's source based and there's probably a ton of compilation in the background
It's very unlikely that performance would be hindered by a particular Linux distribution, but usually rather the desktop environment that it employs. NixOS with LXQt would run very differently to NixOS with GNOME.
How?
The package manager needs more RAM than the average other package manager because it is doing a lot more behind the back.
Because it's source based and there's probably a ton of compilation in the background