Can you please tell me how you managed to measure the percentage of “about this” and “not about that” in my comment? In any NixOS community, there are always a bunch of people ready to cut the throat of anyone who says “flakes is dogshit”. These are the same people who are always crying “I downloaded flake from some crappy github and now my beloved hyprland doesn’t want to work”. Is this a coincidence?
When dudes use flakes config, they usually disable channels by lock their setup to their/anyone’s github. This is kind of how it works.
My qualifications allow me to write flake on my own, and I have even tried doing it. But after a bit of figuring it out, I set the recommended ISO, connected an unstable channel (I used 24.05 back when it wasn’t mainstream), configured the whole system according to the NixOS Wiki and…used the system daily, delighted with its amazing flexibility and stability. I’ve described everything I don’t like about the “experimental features” here
I remember Dolstra writing on his blog that flakes' are needed to "ensure the best tolerance". Haha, I ensure portability of my system with a single yusb flash drive. I think Dolstra got tired of messing around with NixOS and wanted to reduce development costs by annoyingly suggesting a switch to flakes`.
I have a few questions. If your opinion is correct and nix-channels are rotten outdated crap, why aren’t they removed from use? Why hasn’t any of the nix developers decided to make flakes an integral part of the system yet? I can answer these questions. Any operating system is a complete piece of software only when it follows the developers’ backbone logic. At the moment when NixOS becomes a collection of flakes of varying degrees of stupidity, NixOS will cease to exist. Everyone knows and keeps silent that Dolstra started all this nonsense with flakes and home manager only to attract more defectors from other systems. There is no other reason. When a person has worked 30 years in production, he will hardly want to retrain for a new architecture and learn a rather stupid language. The home manager is a crutch written by a third-party developer and its only task is to make the /home folder look familiar to the Arch Linux user. There are no other functions. In the end, all flakes end up in configuration.nix overcomplicating and confusing the configuration. So it’s much better to stop chasing other people’s hyprland configs and install the recommended ISO, switch to an unstable branch and…read the Wiki.
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Your problem is that you are drawing the wrong logical conclusions. The crowd can be wrong.Especially if the crowd relies on collective intelligence.