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I like writing unit tests.

This video editing format is sooooo satisfying

This was a great intro! I gotta ask, though, what is that stand you have for your Moonlander?

do floatx and sessionx only run in linux?

My wife left me

I'm not currently a Vim user, but this *may* convince me to switch to Obsidian if they embody the same privacy values as Logseq.

ok. I installed nix on fedora and installed some hyprland stuff, waybar, and wofi. Currently installing a s**tload of dependencies that seems excessive, and its worrying me. Is this a normal thing when using using nix on a non-nixos distro?

Except that dogs DON'T only see in black and white; they see in shades of blue and yellow. I get the sentiment, but it's factually incorrect.

nix not exist in ur dotefiles hhhh

This is really good, however, sending code as image files should be a warcrime.

I was with you up until you started talking about flakes. It seemed like you started hopping around in and out of environments(nix-shells?) without much explanation as to what was happening, and that is the part I am trying to wrap my dense head around. I understand that a flake is a way to kinda provide 'everything for a project' but when a flake is created does it become part of the OS or do you have to 'jump into it' every time you want to use something that is in the flake? For instance, lets say I want to add a few programs or configurations into a flake so I don't mess with my base system. As far as I understand I have to 'go into' the flake to use them correct? what if I decide I want this config to live on my main system now do I 'merge' the flake it with my system or what am I missing?

NixOS is not lacking documentation. Sure any binary only apps is hard to get to know. But everything with source code is perfectly fine. Thus it has as much documentation as it has packages.. Embrace the insanity! 🔥🔥💪😁 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱😁🌱🌱🌱😁

You could have used flake-utils, which allows you to make a derivation be replicated for every architecture like this: { inputs.flake-utils.url = "github:numtide/flake-utils"; outputs = { self, nixpkgs, flake-utils }: flake-utils.lib.eachDefaultSystem (system: let pkgs = nixpkgs.legacyPackages.${system}; in { # Package hello now will be available for every system and architecture that nix supports without copy pasting packages = rec { hello = pkgs.hello; default = hello; }; } ); }

Question: how did you record terminal as well as the keys pressed?

I would say be careful don’t dive too deep into the nixos rabbit hole. Because you might end up trying to make everything “pure” but this really has no end to it

NixOS seems like a rabbit hole, but Nix itself on top of another system looks really interesting. I think using it for servers looks to be something really valuable.

what is the name of your installed plugin that shows your errors in the code?

I TOLD YOU THE NIX VIDEO WAS COMING

Was running NixOS for almost a year, but recently dropped it for OpenSuse tumbleweed. The technology has so much potential and customisability, but the community was just the most unpleasant I've had to deal with, and so many members being unreasonably hostile and rude to new users.

I tried NixOS and actually it is a mess. You can see at packages and configuration, that maintainers and contributors dont have a common vision. If you already use a Linux distribution and you are happy with it: Just ignore Nix/NisOS for your own mental health. Especially If you want to keep your real Linux next to it: Dual Boot ist nothing NixOS likes

I went down the rabbit hole as well. But you should learn the nix language FIRST. It will demystify a lot of the config as a language style. It comes down to this: I want the same setup on every machine I work on. My job is to ship development environments to other devs as well, so this rabbit hole is worth it. I have seen companies using Nix for this reason as well.

I would argue that Nix is a functional language rather than a DSL, but great vid, appreciate going back to the old style of vids, and looking forward to more nix content cheers!

Tried setting up nixos. One giant issue with it is that i can’t use it without doing major changes to my configs. I feel like the documentation, is really scattered, and hard to find what i’m looking for

Clicked the like and subscribe, with the bell icon, but my nix config still does not work. What did I do wrong?

nix + hyprland

I spent 2 hours today trying to build a package in nix and it never worked. Best 2 hours of my day, while also hating myself.

Awesome stuff. What are some good resources to learn more about Nix?

Holy shit, This is awesome

Whats the minimal browser thing he used? Or it just editing magic?

Looking forwrad to your next video!

Yeah, yeah, nixos is a rabbit hole, we all know at this point, now please create a playlist for Nix stuff and upload more tutorials about flakes and configs for neovim, shell, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc. We need that stuff please!

Nixos is not for newbies. Has very unique approaches to handling packages. Unlike other distros.

I was hoping flakes would be a simple toggle in the installer by now. Ideally I'd, make the first thing the installer presents to the user an option to select a github repo so they can use or clone a systemConfig

i just wish i knew how to replace my dev environment from asdf to flakes, but i can't find a tutorial. i currently developing react native on Mac os and i need node, java and ruby. ASDF works great changing binaries from system to a specific version but nix seems to be good knowledge to have

Nix is certainly one heck of a rabbit hole. Hard to get into if you're new, and even harder to get _out_ of if you're not.

Top quality content, as always! Thank you!

In the end these are the same approaches to database management, just a nicer UI. Sorry man. It's not a coincidence that dbeaver and similar "complex" tools exist. The worst part is you don't even know those features are missing until someone shows you in action.

Nix, istant like

Nope. Still don't get it. Not even the package management! 🙂 I'm on macos. Don't I need to install 'something' before I can use terminal commands like 'nix-env'. Thanks for this introductory video! And will not packages installed by Nix clash with the previously packages installed by brew? So many questions.

NixOS is great but this warning don’t explain why it’s just hard. If you are not a programmer I really warn you about NixOS since you need to understand what is Nix and the derivations and the NixOS program who will generate from your nix evaluation which files and services it needs to configure. If you don’t know how a Linux distribution works and when I say HOW I mean, Systemd, grub, disk partition, how shared libraries and linking works. NixOS is a linux distribution, the big difference with all of those it’s we don’t have a standard glibc where all are binary compiled against. With the nix package manager and nix store, every program are linked from specific versions in the store. That means external binary who depends on a shared library in a specific directory won’t just works. There are patch and way to solve this but this is not something you are supposed to do when using nix. If you don’t want to have everything in the nix package manager, meaning to create your own derivation for none packaged yet package. You will have a bad time believe me.

0:26 thats just the stable tho... unstable on the other hand...

Nix-darwin is as close as you can get on macOS to a “full” NixOS experience. I’m not going full nixOS because nix-darwin does all I need paired with home-manager. Well worth the learning curve, especially for “self-configuring” projects with a little help from numtide devshell and direnv. Devbox abstracts away a bit too much for my liking.

Nix is a great idea with a horrible implementation. Sure, it can install a command line tool if you're lucky somebody maintains is. As soon as your setup becomes a little more advanced debugging anything becomes cumbersome. And if you're using Flakes you have to submit your hardware config with the repo --- so you can't have a single repo unless you submit the config from all the computers you want to use it with. Which kinda defies the whole purpose of having a config that you supposedly should be able to deploy in minutes anywhere. 🤣

Would love a full nix/nixOS series !

Hi can you make a tutorial for beginners how to customize the terminal

I love devbox with direnv, it's amazing to not polute my entire system with project related tools. Also the version managment is so easy. Only some flakes/packages do not compile on silicon.

Brew is hugely more supported on the Mac than nix is and it's much simpler to use if all you want is a Mac OS compatible package manager.

I transitioned from MacOS to NixOS a few months ago and I'm loving it. I use it for both private and professional use (as a developer). The combination of NixOS, flakes and home-manager is awesome. Yes there is a steep learning curve but to be able to declaratively manage your system outweighs the lenrning curve. Now I can have identical setup on my laptop and desktop pc and even a part of it on my MacBook. Since you can rollback from any update, i can use the unstable version without any fear of breaking my system 😅

arch is better btw