nixos

Im just starting out in my nixos journey. This thought came to me in the shower: would nixOS lend itself for a phone OS?

I couldn’t find a nix community, so I’m hoping it is ok that I’m posting on the nixos one instead. I’ll switch to mailing list/discord if necessary, but I have a lemmy app on my phone, and it is much easier to have an ongoing conversation from here, so I decided to give it a shot. Here goes!...

I have a personal source project I created a shell.nix file for. However, in the project I have also scripts I want to execute periodically non-interactively. Could I use the nix-shell shebang pointing to shell.nix file in order to have the same programs when I use nix-shell interactively and when I launch the scripts?

First of all, I’m completely new to Nix and I have no idea what I’m doing. I would like to use it initially as a more general purpose replacement of conda environments for my AI-development workflow. To begin with, I’d like to install nix package manager at my work server where I don’t have root access. I tried...

I’ve been messing around with nix flakes to configure my NixOS system and to put the final touches on I wanted to write an overlay of Neovim with the plugins and everything configured with Lua and then use this overlay to install neovim-qt. After reading various docs on Overlays, I get the fundamentals but I don’t get where...

So Iamm new to nix. I come from fedora and do vfx, which means I need houdini nuke and many other things. They needopticx and cuda working and those apps are not installed via the nix repository, because they are proprietary. How would I go about setting up a houdini install that is at least somewhat reproducible. These apps...

I’ve been hopping around Gentoo and Void the past few days with musl on both, and I’ll be going back to NixOS in a bit due to not having enough time to set up either of them. I’ve realised how little RAM either systems use on musl, though, and I was wondering if there is any chance of replacing glibc with musl on NixOS?

I’ve found a few guides but most of them or hard to understand or poorly written, I’ve done pass trough on proxmox and Arch Linux....

I’m trying to build my first nix package out of the Kana project. My `default.nix’ file is below....

Is anybody using distrobox on NixOS to develop and run software? What are your thoughts on using it?...

This is more of a personal dilemma, since I keep finding myself switching back and forth between NixOS and Gentoo every now and then. I’ve done this twice for each so far ever since I immediately started off my Linux journey with Gentoo, making a quick stop at Arch once when I didn’t have enough time to set either of them up...

I was looking at ryan4yin’s new NixOS book and stumbled upon nixpak, a neat project that , as far as I understand, acts like a sandbox for Nix packages, similar to Flatpak. I’ve been wanting to try using it for myself, but haven’t found any dotfiles I could steal from use as a references. If anyone uses this, I’d love to...

I don’t quite understand how to set up AppArmor on NixOS, and I can’t seem to find anyone’s dotfiles which has AppArmor configurations. Is AppArmor support not a thing on NixOS, or is it just configured the regular way and not declaratively?

What I’ve done is installing...

GitHub Repository: github.com/nix-community/nix-init...

Hi, I’m new to nix and NixOS and would like to try out the package manager first on a different host OS (I use OpenSUSE Tumbleweed). I want to build KDE Plasma desktop in its own nix environment isolated from the rest of the system and be able to launch a graphical desktop session (requires integration from systemd and d-bus)....

I’m new to Nix and wanted to get my feet wet by using the Nix package manager. However, I wasn’t sure how these packages were made. Are these packaged by the community? Who do I need to “trust” when installing these packages? In general, I was looking for info on how nix packages are made and maintained.

Example config linked in readme! My ISP doesn’t offer IPv6, so it might not fit your use case well, but it’s a setup with multiple routing tables (one for vpn, one for direct internet access, one for no internet access)+multiple network namespaces (default namespace has the vpn interface, wan namespace has the vpn...

i use arch (btw), and i hate how much i depend on the AUR, its very unstable. I switched to flatpak for my gui programs since the cli experience sucks. nix on the other hand works like a native package manager, and thats great for me. but i see that nix also includes stuff like coreutils (because of nixos im guessing). do i...

I'm trying to set up Lutris to play games with Wine. I don't understand how I am supposed to install wine runners? Can anyone help?...

I use agenix for managing some secrets on my nixos-configs. Agenix deploys the unencrypted secrets in the live system, so the secrets cannot be accesed when evaluating the nixos config....

Honestly I don't know why I made this, it clearly isn't worth it lol (Jesus, 5000kloc for this), but it was interesting to learn more about nftables (I also found a bug in Nix in the process). I will contribute to nftables docs some time later, as I found many undocumented or poorly documented parts, and some documentation...