nixos

Went through the pain of packaging a python project on Nixos. Here’s some issues I hit, and how I got lucky resolving them. I feel the most reliable way of doing this in the future is to use docker and just imperatively build....

So I tried to follow some tutorial about flakes, but it seems these are extra-experimental still....

I heard a lot about the concepts of nix and NixOS and I’d love to try it....

cross-posted from: infosec.pub/post/9428674...

I setup a next.js project with pkgs.mkshell, and used nix develop to automatically build the project. However, when I leave the shell, the files persist. How should/can(?) I setup my shell.nix so that files in the directory it drops down into are automatically removed when leaving the ephemeral shell?

Hey guys, I’m pretty new to Nix and NixOS and one of the reasons I installed it is because I know there’s some way to install the KDE 6 Beta before the official stable release. I wanted to use the kde2nix overlay, but appearantely KDE 6 has been merged into the official nixpkgs repository. How do I switch from Plasma 5 to 6?...

So I’ve been looking into Nix and it seems like a pretty cool way of managing machines. However, I’m curious about how well it can manage user authentication. Theoretically one should be able to setup the equivalent of roaming profiles with rsync and some sort of authentication server but I haven’t seen a lot of...

I want to start a new project, and I want to try to handle all the reproducibility / “containerization” in nix instead of dockerfiles. I see some examples online but I think they’re including more uncommon procedures and/or don’t do things the “nix” way....

cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/7895009...

Plenty of nix’d config, nix-colors theming for most applications. I’ve only been using linux for around 6 months, NixOS has really clicked with me....

I’ve probably parsed dozens of pages now, including the “Dual boot NixOS and Windows” page on nixos.wiki, and not really sure what the best steps are since most seem to leverage the fact that everything is on a single partition. My windows lives on a physically separate drive than NixOS, so osprober does not detect the...

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/7531089...

I see you can delete everything older than some period of time, but what if I want some older than a year? Or should it be interpreted that: whatever build configuration was used, it is tested thoroughly at that point, and it would be better to rebuild from a nix configuration stored on git?

Edit: my issues came from copying source .nix configurations for the pig manager, not configurations that I would include on my computer. Finding how to include what where was much easier with search.nixos.org...

Came across a new nix wiki attempt. The announcement post is made on discourse with high skepticism....

I’m conflicted on what should handle my login manager, desktop environment, and window manager. What are the pros and cons of doing it from a nixos configurations versus a home manager configuration?

I want to use Plasma-manager in my system. I have enabled flakes in configurations. Now what to do to use it. The output generated by tool rc2nix can be copied through terminal but when i put that in home.nix , it says that plasma is not available which is true but then how do I use this tool. flake file.

I’ve made a fun little project inspired by this (except it’s not updated any more)....