I don't actually have time today to work on any side projects, but I thought I'd run through the basic setup steps for MonoGame aaaand
./bin/Debug/net6.0/MyGame
bash: ./bin/Debug/net6.0/MyGame: cannot execute: required file not found
... which required file ._. ???
I think this sort of thing means it tried to dynamically link something and failed. I run into this whenever I try to run loose builds of Linux games on #NixOS, but idk what to do about it.
I'm currently working on testing out and prototyping a new #server based on #NixOS! The hardware isn't new because I'm just recycling my old desktop (previously known by the hostname Higher and later Radiance) with the goal of building a replacement for my current Sunfish server with a better CPU (for now a dual core but I'm planning an upgrade), more RAM (16GB over the current 4GB, although no more ECC), tons of RAID configured hard disks (currently testing old random disks) and much more!
Finally, I took a look at NixOS, and the Nix package manager! And while I was very skeptical at first, after a week of use, it’s clear that this is an insanely powerful distribution, that is now at the very top of my list to replace Fedora on my editing rig.
Let’s see why, how it works, and why it’s so good, even though it won’t be for everyone:
My best evaluation of what went wrong: there wasn't actually any issue with the built image, it's just that the systemd check failed because it was running from an older version? So I added a flag to force it to keep going anyway and when I rebooted, here I am in 23.05! XD
I've been using #nixos on a #RaspberryPi to run some services for a year or two now, because I really wanted declarative configuration and to lose the stress of upgrades/etc., but it turns out Nixos SUCKS on the Pi (don't @ me, you know it's true or you haven't tried). I bought a laptop-in-a-mini-form-factor-desktop x86 machine to replace it, but ... I'm exhausted just thinking about it. Installing w/ ZFS was not painless. I want private services, but I don't want to sysadmin them.
I have been struggling hard doing proper :python: #Python development on :nixos: #NixOS.
pip install'ed binary packages (numpy et. al) don't work (i.e. don't find system libraries like libz libstdc++ etc.), making scientific data analysis completely impossible. The workarounds (using the nixpkgs versions or setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH) are not viable.
With this #poetry2nix flake template (the clue is preferWheels=true) it seems I can finally work properly:
Hello everyone, so at my new job I'll get a MacBook snd until #AsahiLinux supports the security processor I will be a good girl and use #macOS. For someone coming from a setup mixing #ArchLinux, #Fedora#Silverblue / #CoreOS, even some #NixOS and does weird stuff with #podman sometimes: Are there some general recommendations from other #Linux exiles (I use vanilla #GNOME nowadays mostly, so maybe not too much lol?)
I currently plan to use the mac as mostly a shiny looking physical terminal + some vscode/vi, that should be mostly trivial. As such I'm mostly worried about things like a proper keyboard layout (I use us altgr-intl, caps mapped to ctrl, tab to esc).
Otherwise I'm thinking of grabbing #Firefox and activating Lockdown Mode. I've seen nix-home and will try setting that up for day-to-day tasks/tools.
Coming from Evolution, is Apple Mail decent? Any other "classic" GNOME tool I'd miss? Currently looking for trustworthy replacements for Nick's YT downloader, Warp (Wormhole GUI), Frog (OCR tool), Obfuscate (picture obfuscator/censoring tool), Characters (searching through Unicode symbols/emoji). Anything else I may take for granted but is different? ¹
¹ I already know the cli differences w.r.t. bsd based tools, but my personal scripts are mostly posix/ksh8x compliant anyway :D
Hi all. I've got an older #computer running #Windows10, and I'm thinking about putting #Linux on it since I've always wanted to try it out and think this computer might run better with Linux. I read a topic on audiogames.net about Linux #accessibility, and I saw a few recommendations for #distros to try out. To any #blind Linux users, is #NixOS a good one for a beginner, or should I try #LinuxMint or #Ubuntu? Also, what's the best way to install Linux and replace #Windows? Thanks. #technology#tech@mastoblind@accessibility@main
I want to start a R project and I want to keep everything about this project static and frozen in time. I know nix-shell is a thing, but:
is there a better/smoother approach?
is it possible to also have a service/daemon running in that nix-shell ? The editor I use (Rstudio) has desktop and server versions, and I would rather have the server version running on a beefy remote machine and I ssh into it.
Had to invest hours of debugging only to find out that in the end, my #Python interpreter can't find the installed zlib of the system. This way, #numpy could not be imported because of that. 😔
Another taske of: "Never ever use NixOS when you plan to execute Python scripts."
I'll need to summarize my issue and nag the community in order to find out the underlying reason. 😜
I am not sure how i feel about it in general so far, nixos package manager seems pretty powerful. But im not one to jump on flatpaks. Is this the future of linux though?
Ok #NixOS peeps. I'm currently running NixOS and subscribed to the nixos-22.11 channel. I installed Vivaldi but I'm not on the latest release.
If search Nixpkgs, I see that the latest release on stable is 5.4.2753.47. However, I can see the pull request and merge to update the package to 6.0.2979.15 on the master branch in #Github. Shouldn't I be getting that version when I update my config?
Is it a #Linux distro? Or is it a #container orchestration tool?
At my last job our #webDev env was managed by it, but I was using it on #MacOS and we also had to have #Docker, so I could honestly never figure out what it was there for.
What's missing in the #NixOS community (from my perspective so far): documentation for the step from one host (relatively well documented) to multiple hosts with different configurations.
There seems to be millions of possible ways to implement that and nothing seems to be documented.
With one test notebook and one VM, I'm already totally lost since this really strange #nixlang (+ #flakes) requires weird magic spells for the simple tasks of defining host-specific includes. 😔
🚂 On my way to the #NIXOS Zero Hydra Failures meet-up in #Zürich. I will share some of my experience from the last years on how money flows into the upstream ecosystem from different types of actors with different interests. I hope we can get some thoughts and ideas how this money can be used and investments encouraged without throwing the community off balance.
As a sysadmin, it's super irritating that #NixOS thinks it's okay to aggressively nuke older versions of their search site and their manuals. Literally punishing anybody who dares to be even slightly conservative in their upgrades.
It's especially odd given how friendly the overall architecture is to running whichever versions of stuff you want, forwards or backwards. And how the binary cache seems to still have all the old versions!
Finally took some time to bust out the @PINE64#pinebookpro and have some fun! I'd planned on flashing #nixos onto it, but everything I'd book from the image on my NVMe, I'd go through the whole rebuild and switch but it continued failing to boot into the new build... 🤔
Next best option, fresh install an #archlinux based system with great development record for the PBP, #manjaro , and manage everything with #nix. Turns out option #2 is still pretty awesome! 😎🤘 :manjaro: :nixos: #linux
I must be honest #NixOS is slowly growing on me. But it will take me at least a year to fully grasp it n feel comfortable with it the way I do with #Arch. As a result will not be my daily until then.. #Linux#OpenSource#FOSS
what is everyone's opinion on immutable OSes, NixOs, Fedora Silver blue etc
I am not sure how i feel about it in general so far, nixos package manager seems pretty powerful. But im not one to jump on flatpaks. Is this the future of linux though?