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ladyanita2204/03/20252 repliesview on HN

Doesn't NixOS hog on your hardware?


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Weetile04/03/2025

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.

SuperSandro200004/03/2025

How?

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

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