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> Ultra lightweight

Doesn't nixos use a lot more diskspace than arch, because of its store?

It seems like the "lightweight" they seem to be concerned with is RAM, not disc. I can't really comment on disc space usage on my own NixOS system, though my "thin client" skin does fit nicely on an old Chromebook, I think that guy has 32GB of storage.

I’ll just say as nix Darwin user the default vanilla install does not garbage collect well and every 2 months or so I have to hack around nuking shit in my system to free up space. Maybe NixOS itself is better managed and it’s an idiosyncrasy of nix-Darwin. Maybe not

I like the sound of nix but the disk space issue is a deal breaker for me - my sdd is always full.

I run my main arch system in under 6GB. That's enough for qemu and wine and a few other bits which is all I need - the rest is in VMs

Would like to switch it to nix though..

I think, like everything with Nix, if you recite the correct incantation for configuration you can avoid this issue. But it’s not default behavior

OTOH I have an ex Chromebook with 16G of storage that I meant to run NixOS until I discovered the initial install needed almost half the disk so I figured it was doomed the moment I tried to update while also having some space used in home. It runs Alpine now, very comfortably.

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