← Back to context Comment by ladyanita22 16 days ago Doesn't NixOS hog on your hardware? 3 comments ladyanita22 Reply Weetile 16 days 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 16 days 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 16 days ago Because it's source based and there's probably a ton of compilation in the background
Weetile 16 days 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 16 days 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 16 days ago Because it's source based and there's probably a ton of compilation in the background
ladyanita22 16 days 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