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Discussion on: Au Revoir, Gentoo - Sell Me A New Linux Distro

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John Mercier

I was in this situation a few years ago. I love gentoo but couldn't get my hd configuration to work with other distros. Then I found NixOS which made it easy to use my config. NixOS caches the binaries for common builds and isolates dependencies.

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Ben Lovy

I love Nix too and have it on a secondary partition, but I'm not quite ready to use it as a primary driver - I think I want something closer to the mainstream for that.