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I've tried to install NixOS on an old laptop, for a minimal installation, there were some things I did non like:

* Default packages are compiled with all the dependencies

* The configuration language is a functional programming language, and that's a plus, but the syntax is quiet weird, not similar to ML, Haskell nor Lisp.

* some command line tools are cryptic at best, for example searching for available packages is done with nix-env -qa \* -P | fgrep -i "$1"




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