"Flox began its life during the deployment of Nix at the D. E. Shaw group, where it quickly proved invaluable by making Nix easier for newcomers".
Is that the line you are referring to? Sounds like the opposite of what you suggests it says.
Is that the line you are referring to? Sounds like the opposite of what you suggests it says.
There's nothing easy about nix. Maybe flox makes it easier, but I am so burned out by screwing around for countless hours with nix I'm not even going to try to figure out if it's true.
For me, it doesn't simply need to be easier, it needs to be usable. I lack confidence a product which is an abstraction layer is going to solve that for me, because I have a personal inability to understand the underlying system.
For what it's worth, there are a number of options in the Nix space that really do solve for its complexity like Devbox and now Flox.
Thanks for the "advice" though.
I'm in no means claiming Nix is perfect, but coming from other distros to NixOS I really appreciate the ability to reboot to a new generation and then reboot back if I run in to issues. To do the same in Arch I had a bunch of 'snapper plus manual steps' to accomplish the same.