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I've gotten over all the features of Nix, its become my environment of choice. What continuously impresses me now is the Nix community. An issue with your system can be resolved within minutes of a github issue submission. I'd like to see them use the ZeroMQ C4 development contract (http://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:16). No branches everywhere and it's just a rolling release. I highly recommend this distro, it has given me trouble in the growing stages but it's maturing nicely and things are starting to just work.

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If I can ask, do you use this for a Linux Server you have, or your personal computer? I've been thinking about trying it out on my laptop, but wanted to know how well it does with graphics, networking and audio.

I've been an Ubuntu user for some years now, and feel pretty comfortable with the terminal, but haven't setup xwindows or ALSA manually or anything like that for example.

Okay when I first started using NixOS as a desktop, I knew it would bite me. But I'm a firm believer of the way NixOS handles state, so I suffered through both my and NixOS' growing pains. Basically I had to change my graphics card for some strange reason (which worked on Arch Linux!), ALSA gave me problems with flash videos, this is when I found out how amazing the NixOS community is. They helped me solve this issue quickly, it was a one liner in my configuration.nix. I've had issues with harddrives not being seen on time and having to tell the boot process to wait a second (again a one liner). It's actually quite a fun ride, don't install it on a machine you intend to do real work on, once happy and you've tweaked the hell out of your configuration.nix then roll it out where you need it. So if you have any issues, determine if you can resolve it intelligently and then create a github issue, they are very supportive (thank you Domen Kožar for the quick qt4 fix!). Now my system is happily ticking along, with one nagging Tk issue.

A very fair set of warnings. Thanks. I will keep thinking about it, and probably install it on my old laptop before doing anything serious with it on my desktop.

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