NixOS Reviews & Product Details

• One language and syntax to configure every aspect of the system

• Dependable and accurate control of system states

• Ability to back out upgrades, even if the system is unbootable

• Create isolated, disposable environments for trying new packages

• Create software build environments with just the dependencies you need

• No worrying whether installing some dependency or tool is going to mess up your system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

• Closed-source binaries are harder to install and keep working

• Not everything works all the time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

i thought it was a little complicated at first.. but once i started using it i got comfortable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

at first it was a little complicated like i explained earlier, but honestly its nothing i can say negative or to dislike at time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- reproducibility and deduplication, and many other benefits from Nix package manager

- configuration management united with system configuration

- actually, quite fast for deploys

- upgrades can be rolled back without fear, because it doesn't manage state

- functional language as configuration language. Immutability, referential transparency and laziness are really cool!

- good and evolving community

- easy to patch packages, easy to create new packages (Nix benefits)

- open world module system for configuration, where it is easy to manage dependencies and harder to make errors Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- poor reflection support (why is disk space occupied, why is this option enabled)

- poor stackoverflow community

- often you should dive into deep internals of NixOS and Linux to figure out how to fix/overcome problems

- has bugs

- security updates (and unattended upgrades) exist but are a bad story

- project is still in experimental state, so enterprises rarely adopt it

- community has not enough manpower

- typical NixOS admin should be more proficient than typical Ubuntu admin

- doesn't have support for all features from upstream (for example, reloading services instead of restarting is still an open problem) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of deployment and reproducibility of the system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Poor documentation, making it hard to create new packages, services or builds on the Hydra CI service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.