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I will be returning from a month-long vacation next week. Let’s see if my arch machine will break completely! (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago by ouigol to c/[email protected]

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Last time I didn’t upgrade for a long while some drivers broke, maybe I’ll just switch to NixOS this time since it seems interesting. Does anyone here use NixOS? What do you think about it?

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[–] ouigol 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Oh yeah I use nvidia so it’s pretty unsurprising. How much coding is required? I know how to code so it’s not a very big deal but I’d like to have an idea.

[–] corefoundation 4 points 1 year ago

I wouldn’t call it coding. It’s more about writing configurations. You have to provide a list of packages you need and some configuration for them like configuring default desktop environment. I recommend searching for dotfiles repos with configuration.nix on github to get an idea.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

As someone elase said, it's not really coding but more like writing a configuration. If you need an example (I'm using AMD so there will be some changes required) you can check out my own config at https://gitlab.com/theshatterstone/nix-conf

Edit: Also, the note on shebangs applies to all scripts within NixOS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you so much for your example, I'm new to NixOS coming from arch and these are all very helpful.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

nvidia-open-dkms usually doesn't break when updating.

[–] ouigol 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well something broke ¯\(ツ)/¯