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Oh God miniconda is a horrible piece of software on Nix.

I fell down the Nix rabbit hole, and miniconda was one of the worst things to get working. My first pass used an FHS environment, but eventually I just got the environment.yml file working in micromamba and used that instead. Except micromamba ships it's own linker that I had to override with SHAREDLD, or some random python c++ dependencies wouldn't compile correctly.

I love Nix, but my list of complaints is a mile long. If you want to do anything with opengl in nix, but not on nixos, just give up. NixGl just doesn't really work.

Good luck getting something like Poky (Reference project for Yocto) running in Nix. The only working example puts it in an FHS environment, which uses bubble wrap under the hood. But then because you're in a container with permissions dropped, you can't use a vm. The solution I see in the support forums is roll your own alternative FHS environment based on something else.

/Rant




Yes, this is where I am at. Used it for over a year in a DevOps role and have developed a huge distaste for it. Despite the language itself being one of the most complained about things, I didn't mind it so much. It was the mile-long stack traces, which were often wrong, and constantly fiddling with things I didn't want to fiddle with to get something working. Just ended up costing me way too much time.




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