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I feel like yaml doesn’t have to be repetitive. It’s parsed so like just make a smarter parser and structure the requirements better, yeah? I don’t particularly care yaml vs Toml most of the time they’re both a lot better than json.

Good talk

average nixOS user

My ex in high school used to say: “if you trust systemd one day you’ll sell even your underpants to systemd”. I thought he was being dramatic at the time but here we are now 😂

4 years later and I'm learning NixOS and got curious about NixOS history and found this. Thank you! Great presentation and history. Feels like secret history.

Cool, whats the update?

It would be really cool to know what is the new way of doing things with nix* and in May of 2024 this is still an issue; as you learn you naturally come across discussions where you intuitively learn what is the new way

5 years later still no porting guide whatsoever

This was a great talk

This would be perfect for multi-site web hosting.

Engineers are humans too 😅😅😅😅😅👍🏾

awesome work guys!

LOVE the Tolkien reference! That was really well done.

Love this with nixOS, but an alternative is immutable fedora.

So.. You created a way to port wayland applications to mac? using the wayland code from FreeBSD ports? Then, ran into issues with some of the xcode only tools. But, you have a wayland terminal, which you were able to run as a macOS app under macos windowserver without window Decorations, but... it appears your mac is still using quartz and aqua. How does that work? I imagine that this is strictly to get wayland apps to run under macOS, and not to get WAYLAND itself running ON macos without aqua/quartz. Is that the case?

Can anyone confirm that the reason students are allowed to configure at will their environment is because of nixos’ awesome feature of rolling back to previos state?? I never thought about it, but user permissibility is a huge plus of the nixos!!!

18:07 just out of curiosity why is it that "generating non-installer images is a bit of an anti-pattern"?

Let’s get the rfc merged! 🎉 Thank you for your work!

Great video

Awesome, this looks very promising!

Regarding the halium thing: NixOS takes from pmOS. pmOS used to use libhybris. There is discussion explaining why it doesn't now. Apparently it was more work than without it.

flake.nix + fenix + crane did it for me, thanks!

9:28

what about GPU?

terranix, process-compose-flake and cosmos.nix use nixos evalModules too

Gooooooo Martin!

I didn't really understand why we needed a persistent storage until 11:49 where I saw that the logs where kept there. This could have been explained a little bit more at the beginning to make things clearer, to understand why we need this. Apart from that, great project and good presentation, thank you :)

What a great presentation. Very clear and well structured 👏

Please improve your documentation. So that those of us who are new or want to switch distros can know more deeply. Don't just type in the terminal console, I hope it can be more complete like the arch linux documentation

okay, how do we upgrade to tvixos? 😸

love this!

Having args in inputs makes the most sense to me.

What do the bunny ears represent?

Just started with NixOS and set up a bunch of machines with disko and nix-anywhere. Great stuff🚀

Great presentation. Excited to give this a proper go.

This would be such a great example setup to learn from. There isn't more detail about this available is it?

10:10 "incantation" lol

Great talk and really love the infographics!

Cool to see this in-person presentation! I've been using disko since I needed to provision NixOS on several VPS, which was indeed quite nice. For the last one I also tried nixos-anywhere (while booted from a CD image through the web-console of the VPS provider). I was a bit surprised about the distrust toward BTRFS, I must have missed something when I installed it on a home server spanning multiple different disks? So is it really that dangerous or is there some irony involved here? Are there any references that I really shouldn't use it? Or if I were to consider ZFS: would it (still) be a good match if my hardware is (relatively) limited (microserver Gen8 16GB Xeon-1265L, but need most RAM to run k3s with about 10 workloads), and if I (probably) wouldn't use snapshots (because of limited space and selective off-site backups)?

Some very true words Rok. Made me think a lot about why we do things and how we should approach others at work. Thanks for the inspiration!

That is great, I am a daily neovim user and I start nix about months ago. I just want to know how to take part of it? Will the code be opensourced? Thx

Is there a similar nixops-backend plugin for LXC containers?

One of the most exciting presentations of NixCon2023

That looks a lot like a suspect talking to the police: "I don't remember". NixOS must be really good, if it's creator never used it, doesn't remember anything about it and is still invited to give talks about it. It feels like the people in charge of making NixOS really don't want it to be used and are desperately trying to stop the hype. This is really funny!

What a useless boring video

Congratulations. Thanks for making adding packages much simpler.

I will definitely need to return to this and attempt it. I have a dozen PCs that I'd like to streamline NixOS installation for.

Bootstrappable distros are so cool

I really like to know more tips how to nix build production ready OCI images with torch and cuda support