nixos

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

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...

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?...

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 been hearing a lot about it lately and I’m intrigued, but also utterly confused....

Hi all, I’ve been getting into nix lately (I’ve been posting here frequently) and wanted to know what projects everyone is working on. Are you trying to integrate nix into an existing project? Contribute to nixpkgs? Experiment with your configs?

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

I recently wanted to try out (aider)[aider.chat], and ran into a problem that I continually run into: how do I install one-off, experimental software into my environment, without being a nix master, or spending an extreme amount of time on every new package....

Hi there! I’m trying to make php and composer work. I have this in environment.systemPackages:...

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

I made a post a while ago asking what you do when NixOS isn’t cutting it. You need a package that isn’t available as a flatpak/appimage or already in nixpkgs. You don’t want to build from source, because it’s either too difficult or too time consuming. One suggestion was containerization or virtual machines, but those...

Every now and then I see a program that doesn’t have a default.nix or flake.nix in the source, doesn’t have an entry in nixpkgs, and otherwise can’t find a derivation for. So I write them myself....

What do you as a fail safe when there isnt a flake or nix package for what you need, and you don’t have the time or ability to create it?...

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?

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.

tl;dr image buildable with some patches

I have a config that I share on github. I share the whole thing and there are keys in it but they are obviously not the complete key (as is standard throughout the community). Just enough to point to the real key with Nix....

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

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....

I’m been wanting to move over my main desktop for almost a year now. But from 3+ years of tinkering, installing applications, and configurations Ive been super hesitant. The jump from Ubuntu to NixOS would be a big one. I have a laptop running nixos thats given me some exposure to the nix language, but when it comes to my main...

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...

Used nix last year but dropped it after home-manager decided to unlink the apps from the Applications directory....

Interesting idea.