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ladyanita22 8 months ago

Doesn't NixOS hog on your hardware?

Weetile 8 months ago | parent | next [-]

It's very unlikely that performance would be hindered by a particular Linux distribution, but usually rather the desktop environment that it employs. NixOS with LXQt would run very differently to NixOS with GNOME.

SuperSandro2000 8 months ago | parent | prev [-]

How?

The package manager needs more RAM than the average other package manager because it is doing a lot more behind the back.

ladyanita22 8 months ago | parent [-]

Because it's source based and there's probably a ton of compilation in the background