• danhab99@programming.dev
    3·
    5 hours ago

    Nix is just across the street sipping tea because it understands what it is and is at peace with the chaotic world around it.

    • stebator@lemmy.world
      1·
      13 minutes ago

      I use NixOS and Flatpak (Nix-Flatpak) to install software that is not available in Nixpkgs. Unlike Arch’s AUR, Nixpkgs has fewer popular packages. However, Nixpkgs beats AUR in terms of quantity because many Nixpkgs packages are redundant.

  • Abnorc@lemm.ee
    1·
    7 hours ago

    It’s not about the package management method that we use. It’s about the friends and enemies we made along the way (while arguing about package management.)

  • procapra@lemm.ee
    12·
    14 hours ago

    If flatpak didn’t make me put the entirety of KDE onto my system (thats an exaggeration but you know what I mean) I’d gladly crown it king of the package managers.

    • rtxn@lemmy.worldM
      7·
      10 hours ago

      I just want to point out the dependencies of Konsole (arguably a small and simple application in concept): glibc gcc-libs icu kbookmarks kcolorscheme kconfig kconfigwidgets kcoreaddons kcrash kdbusaddons kglobalaccel kguiaddons ki18n kiconthemes kio knewstuff knotifications knotifyconfig kparts kpty kservice ktextwidgets kwidgetsaddons kwindowsystem kxmlgui qt6-5compat qt6-base qt6-multimedia sh.

  • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    12 hours ago

    Like a bunch of old farts in a coffee shop arguing over which truck brand is better.

  • cley_faye@lemmy.world
    6·
    16 hours ago

    A rusty bucket riddled with holes and the stick part of a shovel is better than snap for running software.

  • MoonlightFox@lemmy.world
    14·
    20 hours ago

    I have really started to like AppImage. You just download a single file make it executable and it just works.

    I use Cursor for coding, and it has an appimage that replaces itself when it updates.

  • Monstrosity@lemm.eeEnglish
    10·
    19 hours ago

    I tried a snap package on my pop-os system once & it poo’ed folders all over my system, then didn’t actually uninstall when I uninstalled it.

    No thank you.

  • chrash0@lemmy.world
    3·
    19 hours ago

    i just got an Ubuntu machine at work, and really simple packages are only available as snaps. so i guess i’m going to try out Nix home-manager

  • Sibshops@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    19 hours ago

    Apt is kind of broken, to be honest. No package should have full system access during installs or execution.