Comment by tiffanyh
3 hours ago
Why don’t more people use NixOS on servers?
Is it because of no LTS?
And is having a LTS somewhat the antithesis of what NixOS represents?
3 hours ago
Why don’t more people use NixOS on servers?
Is it because of no LTS?
And is having a LTS somewhat the antithesis of what NixOS represents?
The same reason you don't use arch linux on servers. Some distros are simply better suited for servers. We do have talosos for k8s and we (used) to have clearlinux.
Reproducible builds though seem perfect for servers, no?
rather than being theoretically better, it's simply the standard way of running servers. Nobody stops you from using nix or even arch on servers, but nearly all of installations, enterprise packaging and "officially" supported distros are debian/ubuntu/centos and has been like that for a really long time.
Nvidia for example won't give you any support unless you use specific kernel versions on ubuntu.