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Honestly, you could be absolutely right. I haven't revisited Nix since Bazzite Buzz #12 informed us on the following:
"The Nix
ujustscript has also been removed due to conflicts with SELinux policies. Users can still install the Nix package manager manually if they so desire at their own risk."However, the above could be outdated; I simply don't know. Are you aware of any developments that have changed things for the better?
I don't remember when this installer was declared stable for use on Fedora, I have installed it in May myself, so after that post.
In the issues tab there seems to be some problems still, like #1325, for me, at least, it's mostly all fine, the only issue I still have is that some things don't work due to the user's home directory being a synlink to
/var/home/<username>, rare enough that I still use itlol. I initially had a better written reply that I was about to send, but I clicked on cancel instead of reply. RIP.
First of all, thank you for sharing your own experiences!
Secondly, in short, looking at the discord servers that are related to the uBlue project, general folk seem to have moved past Nix and use flatpak and brew instead for GUI and CLI respectively. Though, some community members happily report to be content with Nix. So, perhaps I shouldn't be necessarily opposed to home-manager.
Finally, I didn't expect to find a crossover between brew and chezmoi to effectively become a quasi-home-manager.
Aw man haha
That sounds a bit funny, when those technologies are just (despite me not liking to use this term) inferior, in terms of packaging, only flatpak really shines because of its embedded permission model, one of the reasons why I also still use it, though there are ways to use bubblewrap with Nix packages which I honestly haven't tried.
Yeah, I think you should at least give it a shot and see how you like it, it's not as easy right out of the box as the other 2 you mentioned, of course, so you should find out for yourself what you feel more comfortable using.
That is kinda neat, but, to me, it really feels more like a last resort when you somehow can't access Nix, Nix is just that much more structurally sound than all the other 3rd party package managers that you can install alongside your system's, I say that mostly because of versioning that doesn't break, and package manager as well as configuration being all cohesively described with a single language, it's not exactly easy, so I won't say "what more could you want?", but look at the features of both to see what you really want first.