[Nix-dev] Is NixOS a practical proposition for me?

Aristid Breitkreuz aristidb at gmail.com
Sat Jan 18 14:39:22 CET 2014


Note that desktop environments other than GNOME have been found easier to
package, so Xfce or KDE should actually work pretty well.
Am 18.01.2014 14:26 schrieb "Colin Adams" <colinpauladams at gmail.com>:

> OK. Thanks for the warning. I shall have to consider whether or not I am
> going to be able to devote enough time to undertake this.
>
>
> On 18 January 2014 13:23, Vladimír Čunát <vcunat at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 01/18/2014 12:51 PM, Michael Raskin wrote:
>>
>>> Now, Gnome3 is a large complex thing with many parts, and building it
>>> is not easy. So gettting it fully working can take quite some effort.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, it should be stressed that right now noone can give any good
>> estimates on how long GNOME 3 might take to be usable. Some apps from the
>> stack work for months (e.g. evince) without any serious problems (only
>> icons/theming aren't figured out very well AFAIK), but the whole thing is
>> complex.
>>
>> Vlada
>>
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