miniblog.

The most common selling point I hear for Nix is having a list of all the packages you need. On a traditional Linux distro, I just install things and forget about them. A curated, commented list would certainly be handy when I have a new system.

I've been really enjoying paru as a pacman substitute on Arch Linux: https://github.com/Morganamilo/paru It allows you to update both normal and AUR packages in one go, which is super convenient. It also shows you PKGBUILD files, so there's still a human audit step for AUR.

I don't have much data on difftastic usage, and I suspect most users get it from the packages provided by their distro. There's been a clear uptick in stars since I built a homepage in the last month or two though! (The first big bump is when it hit Hacker News.)