Is anyone using NixOS as their primary operating system? How is it: How up-to-date is the software, are the features as neat as advertised, how is the configuration system etc.?
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Isaiah Reed
Angel Taylor
No one? Nix package manager looks really cool.
Juan Gonzalez
Sorry OP, we only discuss ricing and consumerism
Jacob Powell
Damn.
I'll just leave this here then, to maybe get someone interested (because I am).
youtube.com
slides.com
Currently I'm running Arch, but this looks nearly good enough to switch if it works as well as advertised. Imagine changing your system configuration and you can automatically boot back into a previous system configuration via GRUB if something goes wrong.
Everything is completely reversible.
Brandon Jenkins
I use Guix. I haven't really used GuixSD though.
John Sanchez
"You can have multiple versions or variants of a package installed at the same time. This is especially important when different applications have dependencies on different versions of the same package — it prevents the “DLL hell”. Because of the hashing scheme, different versions of a package end up in different paths in the Nix store, so they don’t interfere with each other."
Damn that sounds great. The whole distro looks professional af. Will try it. Thanks op.
Kevin Evans
Glad you are enjoying it. Check out the YouTube video/presentation here too: I'll try a basic installation in a VM for now, and see if I can actually get Plasma etc. running.
Jordan Myers
It essentially the next step after Snap packages or flatpaks. There is also cool things like creating environments for development with all the packages you need to build and work on your project.
Thomas Gray
Makes me feel like flatpak should never have been started, but the Nix package manager should have been adapted instead.
Jason Clark
I'm on arch right now since it's hasslefree for me but I will try this. I don't fully understand the presentation but I'll stop and google whenever I don't understand something.
Jose Green
Yep, it helps reduces a lot of the duplicated packages you would have plus many more cool stuff.
Liam Kelly
>systemd
So much for the whole reliability they claim. The iso can't even boot because of it.
Perhaps one day people will remove the virus for good.
Luis Walker
GuixSD uses GNU Shepherd
Colton Flores
>Perhaps one day people will remove the virus for good.
It's not a virus, but it did introduce another vulnerability due to FBDEV being garbage recently in the 230 release.
I've never had a problem with systemd myself.
Nathaniel Russell
I try to use it. It broke my KDE5 today after an update and I've never been able to install GNOME 3 using it due to a file conflict ( isn't entirely true). Feels very nascent and unstable right now, and it's got many components like `nix-env` being needlessly complex; I shouldn't have to remember all these weird command parameters instead of `nix install`, `nix update`, etc. `nox` tries to make installing easier it but fails in its interface when there are a lot of choices.
I really hope for Nix' future because what it strives for is something I'd love to see come to fruition.
Aaron Clark
Currently working on building a custom GNU/Linux distro - very early stages.
What would you want in it?
Leo Martinez
Automatic BLACKED.COM downloads
Zachary Thomas
needs wine with all the DLLs already loaded
grub, grub2, uboot, and lilo
PPC support built in
openbox as default
XOrg and wayland (X by default ofcourse)
animu background, and pulls random images off Sup Forums every 10 mins
Jack and ALSA for the audio - though pulse is ussualy fine
openRC for startup
Tyler Adams
make an option to not install GNU userland -- this means install clang and busybox instead, along with utilities that replace any leftover GNU tools
Tyler Thompson
that is the ultimate in saying screw-you to stallman
Eli Rogers
Guix SD is also cool.
Nolan Davis
/sci/ here, I don't use NixOS but I do use the Nix package manager on Arch Linux.
I use it to manage all of my Haskell software. It's much better than using Cabal and my understanding is there are plans to change Cabal so that it works more like the Nix package manager.
In case you're planning on trying out the package manger on Arch then I advise not installing it throug the AUR. Since the NIX package manager upgrades itself then you probably don't want another package manager fucking with it.
Also, the way I use Nix managed packages in my Arch setup is by creating environments. Then I just open up the terminal, type load-env-[environment] and it re-configures my shell with all the Nix packages available.