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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • Updating individual applications is a pain on NixOS. You’d either have to override the attributes of the package (which can get quite ugly and complicated and does not always work) or pull in a new commit of nixpkgs that has the version you want which requires the download of a ton of other dependencies that were compiled for that specific commit of nixpkgs.

    Flatpaks solved this problem for me and helped reduce the download size every time I wanted to update something.