I remember the gimmick with Slackware other than being one of the first and oldest Linux distributions to appear was that there is no package management. If you wanted to install something, then you would probably have to either compile from source or find a finicky way to reliably install precompiled binaries. Far as package management goes, Nix has been the best by far. The language used pushes you toward the declarative installation and configuration of packages. Binaries are built in isolation, so you won't run into that many issues with automatic dependency resolution. You can even have multiple versions of a package installed to the system. Other than the language itself, Nix doesn't hide much from you either. When you examine Nix against the traditional package managers of Unix-like operating systems, the comparison is like night and day. You'd be hard pressed to find a package manager with that amount of effort and polish put into it. That said, it isn't without its quirks and is definitely an acquired taste in my opinion. *Typo.#nix, #nixos.@r1w1s1@snac.bsd.cafe @dcc@annihilation.social @sushee@ohai.social
