• Peasley@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    I think NixOS has taken a bit of Gentoo’s mindshare. They solve similar problems with very different approaches.

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      12 hours ago

      How so? When I switched to NixOs I was looking for system stability over time. That’s not really something I associate with Gentoo, at least not on a desktop system.

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        17 minutes ago

        but stability isn’t something that would drive a gentoo user away either.

        a lot of the draw of gentoo from what I saw was being able to configure everything down to how it gets compiled. it’s simple to apply a patch to a package before it gets built or maintain a custom kernel config in nixos, as well as all the advantages of declarative os