nixos

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...

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

I was trying to use a flake with nix-pkg to set up a flutter dev environment but it just wouldn’t stick, and a lot of the examples online are quite old and not documented well for a nix noob like myself....

My server is currently running fedora and it has a encrypted raid attatched. Now i wanna move my server to nixos but i cant find anything on how to automount it. Any advice ? Thanks for your time and have a nice day!

I’ve been spending a couple weeks unable to modify my system, because using my window manager was ungodly slow (like 1fps.) Luckily NixOS lets you pick a previous generation to load so I could make changes, build a new generation, and try again....

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....

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

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 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?

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

Short video from Vimjoyer on how to setup a firefox install using home manager and flakes. In particular, the focus of this video was how to use an external flake as a source for firefox extensions, since they aren’t available in nixpkgs.

I came across this article when wondering how to integrate the “building” aspect of nix (that is, not just a devshell) with static websites or other projects that involve some output that is not an executable....

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...

Interesting idea.

tl;dr image buildable with some patches

South California Linux Expo is looking for papers.

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....

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 recently followed arthurkoziel.com/installing-nixos-on-a-macbookpro… to install NixOS on a macbookpro5,1 (from 2008). OSX hasn’t supported that hardware since El Capitan and it was incredibly slow even then....

gvolpe, the person I forked my NixOS config from wrote this excellent article. I feel like the least I could do is share this amazing blog post....

My understanding is like this. For multi-user computers, you’d manage packages with home manager. If you’re developing a project or need some kind of specific built tool or dependency, define in it in a flake.nix or shell.nix or build.nix in the project folder. And for single user computers, or maybe admin accounts install...

https://github.com/exploitoverload/PwNixOS/raw/main/pics/readme/terminal.png...