How does the number of packages in nixos compare to, say, arch's aur? Looking around, I see a decent selection, but I figured I would get more feedback from the community.
Also, what don't you like about nixos?
Also, what don't you like about nixos?
I personally don't find any major annoyances with NixOS so far, but a lot of people do complain about the Nix language being a high barrier to entry though. However, once you grasp the basics, it makes it really easy to create your own custom packages for your favorite software thanks to the rich facilities built on top of the Nix language that just doesn't match any other system packaging tools.
Stuff like filebeat from ELK stack is like a year old version.
Some are of course up to date but for less popular ones, you would look elsewhere to install.
To bad because I like how I can install things the same for macOS and Linux, unlike Homebrew whicu gets installed in some weird /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/ dir and shell config needs to be changed.
The stats from repology say otherwise. NixOS is the most up-to-date distro in existence.
> Some are of course up to date but for less popular ones, you would look elsewhere to install.
For less popular ones, it's more likely that the package won't even exist on other distros given the number of packages in nixpkgs.