Nixos since 3-4 years. Arch Linux before that.

Arch and void are very similar except void has a smaller community and much smaller set of packages to install. Arch also has better documentation.

Void is considered more lightweight because it uses runit instead of systemd and a choice to use musl instead of glibc.

I feel for most, arch is a better choice of the three.

You mean in terms of how fast it feels? I have never heard anyone saying this before. Can you share some details and perhaps some tips to improve performance on Nixos?

What hardware do you run Nixos on and do you modify and rebuild a lot of packages on nixpkgs?

🎉 Same! I’ve been looking at Ashos (meta distribution) or just using btrfs snapshots to rollback when I break something.

Yeah there’s a lot of state accumulation especially in home folder which I clear manually from time to time.

In Nixos you can configure the impermanence module to clear unwanted state on your system and make it a “fresh install” on every reboot.

Yeah. For reproducibility I still use nix. Especially when I have to share my dev environment with a team or to spin up identical servers.

You can achieve similar results with ansible. But I like nix better. It is reproducible. You can think of it like docker.

Nix is also declarative and has rollback. Also, nixos-rebuild is idempotent.

Thank you!

I just wanted something lightweight and fast. It was between alpine (gentoo based), void and artix (arch based). I decided to go for void because it’s new and an independent distro. I’ll try the other two some day.

Was it recent? I remember doing the same some years ago 😆