In my case, it just worked, on two machines. Just added steam and lutris into the config along with two other options recommended for gaming and it worked.

If you have a working system and no wish to ever install anything new, you could run it indefinitely.

It wouldn’t get any updates after some point and after ~10 years some websites would stop working because they would be using some new standard that is not yet implemented in the browser on your machine.

To update to a newer version of NixOS, you might need to change config slightly, and that requires you to know where configuration is and how to read error messages.

To install something new it is easy in 70% of cases and really really hard in the remaining 30%.

The answer depends on technical ability of your partner. In any case, they should always be able to login and extract all the data they need, so they can then reinstall, say plain Debian.

This could also be done with help from a Linux versed relative/friend. So you should leave a bit of documentation behind.

Other than that, don’t optimise for the worse case scenario. It will leave you with suboptimal system most of the time.

Is this a threat? 🤔

Is it in a basement? Is there a lot of arches?

8MB is too much for web. 1MB is the upper limit of what i consider ok.

You write a nix derivation that decares it needs python and then runs the makefile. Then you can add the derivation to your configuration.nix (or temporary request it in a nix-shell).

I open search.nixos.org at least 3 times a day. This will be appreaciated. But it needs an alias, im not typing that.

As someone designing a programming language: this is a terrible, horrific feature of a language, that makes poetry and jokes possible.