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NixOS has a desktop installer now. If they had an easy way to setup Flathub and turn on auto updates, it would be as user-friendly as Silverblue. I actually have several family members on it, since I can do that first post-install setup.

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Flathub is only okay with NixOS because a lot of flatpaks escape their sandbox and call out to outside programs. Sometimes you need to compile a NixOS version since the paths are not the same as a generic Linux distro. I've asked the developers to take a look at it, and one of them closed the issue, and the other is going to try to make it work with steam run

Basically, nixpkgs is still the best way to run something on NixOS

nixpkgs is still the best way to run something, period.

Flatpak is an ugly hack that mixes together the completely unrelated tasks of packaging and sandboxing, while not being particularly good at any.

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