What’s wrong fedora? I’ve barely used it but it’s what I usually recommend to non tech savvy people, specificially the kinoite version (KDE + atomic updates).
Oh, nothing wrong with Fedora specifically. I also recommend Fedora KDE to people like this.
But, imagine you saw someone use a project somewhere online you want to try and it’s not popular enough to be in the repos. Now you have to git clone --depth 1 --recursive blah blah blah, source ~/cflags.sh, mkdir build, cd build, cmake …, make -j4…
Doesn’t sound difficult. But over time, your home directory becomes FULL of random ass git repositories. AND your /usr/local/bin is full of outdated stuff, sometimes overwriting updated stuff in /usr/bin. Having the AUR reduces that significantly.
For the AUR I agree, I use arch on my daily computer. What I’m more confused about is Nix, I still can’t see the general usecase, besides the obvious niche ones.
What’s wrong fedora? I’ve barely used it but it’s what I usually recommend to non tech savvy people, specificially the kinoite version (KDE + atomic updates).
Oh, nothing wrong with Fedora specifically. I also recommend Fedora KDE to people like this.
But, imagine you saw someone use a project somewhere online you want to try and it’s not popular enough to be in the repos. Now you have to git clone --depth 1 --recursive blah blah blah, source ~/cflags.sh, mkdir build, cd build, cmake …, make -j4…
Doesn’t sound difficult. But over time, your home directory becomes FULL of random ass git repositories. AND your /usr/local/bin is full of outdated stuff, sometimes overwriting updated stuff in /usr/bin. Having the AUR reduces that significantly.
For the AUR I agree, I use arch on my daily computer. What I’m more confused about is Nix, I still can’t see the general usecase, besides the obvious niche ones.
NUR (Nix User Repository)