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Three Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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Three Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

A review of Nix/NixOS after using it on all my machines for three years. I’ll cover what works, what doesn’t, and why it’s the first OS that’s stuck with me.

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