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> The quality of the packages available for Arch is what made me move from NixOS.

Can you give some examples of this please?

I generally find the NixOS packages high quality.



Unless you care about packages from lang package managers like pip...


You can get those, but its more work on NixOS if not already packaged.

I'm undecided on what I think about this since... I frequently get bitten by reproducibility issues of pip packages.

Anything packaged in nixplgs generally rarely fails for me, especially in the more complex cases of cuda/pytorch.

I suppose I'm more likely to want "pytorch except" where that except is a newer dependency or build flag improving performance.




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