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Nixos
Pros
- Delarative Config
- largest package repos
Cons
- poor documentation
- cli and package management is in limbo with unstable flakes/cli
Poor documentation combined with the step learning curve is quite a problem imho.
This is what ultimately repelled me. I've installed it for a couple weeks, and while I appreciate what it's trying to do, the learning curve was not worth the effort. At least not yet
Flakes aren't really unstable, but a lot of documentation is based on the old way of doing things. Also, Nix(OS) has a steep learning curve.
To enable the use of flakes, you have to use the 'extra-expiremental-features flakes' flag.
Edit: Apparently they are called 'extra-expiremental-features' not 'extra-unstable-features'. Regardless the nix docs explicitly describe them as unstable here
https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/contributing/experimental-features.html
They're "experimental" because the RFC wadn't approved IIRC, but everyone in the community (and the new documentation) talks about amd used the new commands.