elfahor@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Linux@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoWhat are some things you wish you had known when switching to Linux?message-squaremessage-square155fedilinkarrow-up1165arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1163arrow-down1message-squareWhat are some things you wish you had known when switching to Linux?elfahor@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Linux@lemmy.ml · 1 year agomessage-square155fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareflashgnash@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoInstalled distrobox on NixOS because I was worried being limited to only nixpkgs and have not touched it once lol Same goes for the windows VM except for the time I needed to run excel macros for work
minus-squarenull@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoWorried about being limited to only the biggest selection of packages available. Does not compute.
minus-squareflashgnash@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoI’d never heard of nixpkgs before so thought it was some small niche thing
minus-squarerutrum@lm.paradisus.daylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThats been a fear of mine moving to nixos. Glad to know it’ll cover most of my software needs.
minus-squarePracticalParrot@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoI did on my Nix, there was a package in Nixpkgs that was outdated, so I had the opportunity to use distrobox for that, at leqst temporarily until they update the package.
Installed distrobox on NixOS because I was worried being limited to only nixpkgs and have not touched it once lol
Same goes for the windows VM except for the time I needed to run excel macros for work
Worried about being limited to only the biggest selection of packages available. Does not compute.
I’d never heard of nixpkgs before so thought it was some small niche thing
Thats been a fear of mine moving to nixos. Glad to know it’ll cover most of my software needs.
I did on my Nix, there was a package in Nixpkgs that was outdated, so I had the opportunity to use distrobox for that, at leqst temporarily until they update the package.