33 engineers on Hacker News describe using NixOS first-hand: 19 endorse it, 1 regret it, 5 are mixed.
“I switched my workstation to NixOS and I couldn't be happier.”
endorse · personal · 0.5 yr · linsomniac · 2026-11-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The combination feels quite powerful if you are in the ecosystem.”
endorse · personal · ectoloph · 2026-10-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've had NixOS on my machines now for about 3 years... There is also one server running NixOS serving up part of what runs Tunnelmole in production.”
endorse · production · 3 yr · aussieguy1234 · 2026-10-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using NixOS on several machines for a few years now... the ecosystem is actively hostile to the user”
regret · personal · 3 yr · imiric · 2024-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I will freely admit it's an awesome technology in some respects. But the documentation just was not there.”
mixed · personal · 1 yr · Dedime · 2024-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Robust thanks NixOS being a declarative OS, for example by adding a grub menu for every new deployment, making rollbacks easy.”
endorse · personal · ibizaman · 2024-08-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use NixOS, these days... I've used it in-prod and have nothing but good things to say about it.”
endorse · production · talldayo · 2024-08-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In a full-metal-jacket NixOS setting it's bloody hard to bash your way through to the next screen”
mixed · personal · benreesman · 2024-03-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In my company we have an infrastructure of computers that we manage with NixOS.”
endorse · production · Jhsto · 2023-09-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been running NixOS systems for nearly a decade, and now have it deployed across 3 cpu archs in 3 continents.”
endorse · production · 9 yr · predictabl3 · 2023-05-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Having all the servers running same configuration that is commited to GitHub, fully reproducable and tested in CI, ... was worth all the troubles”
endorse · production · erenst · 2023-03-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using this repo as my daily driver for a month... Once you get to just NixOS... It is pretty hard to switch back.”
endorse · personal · ingenieroariel · 2022-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm loving it now though, I have 3 computers running it and a flake that I push to github.”
endorse · personal · 0.1 yr · sunsunsunsun · 2022-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I would find it hard to give up the tiling manager and benefits of declaratively managing my system on NixOS.”
endorse · personal · stuzenz · 2022-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“NixOS is the only system I'm yet to break, and I've been using it at home for 2 years and at work full-time”
endorse · production · 2 yr · lillecarl · 2021-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“NixOS allows me to put in down in terms of code, and the code practically never stops working.”
endorse · personal · Filligree · 2021-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I recently took some neglected, non-internet-facing NixOS servers and updated them from an early 2018 release to the latest NixOS unstable rolling release.”
endorse · personal · pxc · 2021-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“my workstation is using a bit over 100GB after almost 2 years of running NixOS”
endorse · personal · 2 yr · aidenn0 · 2021-02-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My favorite feature of NixOS is cleanliness.”
endorse · personal · thomastjeffery · 2020-11-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It's also the most convenient system I ever worked with for creating custom packages”
mixed · production · adamtulinius · 2018-04-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using NixOS for a while now.”
mixed · personal · aidenn0 · 2017-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“NixOS and nixpkgs is very functional, we use it in production at the company I work for”
endorse · production · Ixiaus · 2016-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm using a NixOS server in prod for an application. Works very nicely, makes deployment a breeze.”
endorse · production · jallmann · 2016-08-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using it for a while and it's beautiful. Upgrades are very close to being fully atomic”
endorse · personal · mbrock · 2015-07-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using NixOS as my primary OS for the best part of half a year now (maybe more). I haven't looked back since”
mixed · personal · 0.5 yr · ocharles · 2013-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“if you're smart enough to use NixOS, you are not representative of gen pop at all.”
neutral · personal · SOLAR_FIELDS · 2026-05-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“even with 4 years of running NixOS under my belt”
neutral · personal · 4 yr · mplanchard · 2025-04-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've used NixOS on my work laptop for 9 months, and I've deployed it in production”
neutral · production · 0.75 yr · sshine · 2024-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I do have a NixOS VM running via OrbStack, though.”
neutral · personal · pxc · 2024-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Recently I've moved to NixOS”
neutral · personal · jamespwilliams · 2020-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the day I decided to try out nixos”
neutral · personal · auslegung · 2020-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Plasma on NixOS, switched from GNOME 3”
neutral · personal · jbboehr · 2020-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I say this as a NixOS maintainer (though I'm relatively dormant these days).”
neutral · personal · aseipp · 2016-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?