love these explanations

Hye man, what happened to you and your channel? Are you still with us and if so, can we expect more awesome vids from you?

lovely video

Thanks man, your video must've been what the doctor ordered. Now that the steps have changed, there is no corresponding explanation. Incidentally, for an open source project like Nix that is 20 years old, the documentation is atrociously negligent. It's not that the people don't know the language of communication, but its apathy. I thought of helping out with writing parts of the manual, but after seeing the history of this project, I'm scared of volunteering. You can't get this bad unless there is some deep structural cracks.

What is this dev command? Is it an alias? 0:28

2024 nix udpate video in the works?

Thanks for the video👍 What I haven't found yet was how to lust the loaded variables in root scope. "Added x variables to the root scope" is all but helpful. Update: Just found it - just press the tab key

These videos NEED millions of views

clear as hell

omg NOW I get it!

Your keyboard's sound is killing me :)

This is really helpful, thanks!

I just wanted to thank you for making these videos. They were my introduction to the Nix package manager. I started using NixOS 2 years ago and thanks to the explanations you gave here, I haven't looked back since. Keep up the good work!

I definitely had my mind blown, briefly, when you said "all of you can get my vim config here" before I realized the implied "(if you work at shopify and point to our nix-cache)". I was very concerned for all of the secrets that were probably in nix's theoretical public binary cache🤣

Was runix ever released? I can't seem to find any repo or reference.

Hello, welcome back etc..

I tried running `nix run /nix/store/{hash}-home-manager-path -c vim` and it doesn't work for two reasons: The directory "cannot be evaluated", and the -c argument seems to no longer exist for `nix run`.

Cheers buddy!👍

Hey I use Pop_OS can i use nix or homebre for the back end of the pop shop

I think this is the single most important guide to nix. Over the last 2.5 years I've read a lot of guides, a lot of the nixpkgs source code, documentation, Github threads, written a lot of nix, and watched a lot of nixcon videos. And I don't think there's anything that brings the pieces of the design together quite like this video does.

I'm a little bit confuse between home.packages and programs.{program}.enable = true, why bat is not listed in home.packages? is it interchangeable to install things by choosing one either listing program in the home.packages or using program.{program}.enable = true?

Why not use nix-instantiate --eval instead?

Thanks for sharing

We need more Nix videos pls

Removing the CA cert package accidentally breaking your environment is very relatable, even the commentary "eh I don't recognize that, it doesn't seem important, get rid of it" followed closely by "oh shit". Generations is a pretty nice feature.

This was extremely helpful. Two light bulb moments for me: 1) The nix language doesn't do anything except write out derivations, and 2) Nixpkgs is essentially just one giant derivation.

1:00 Triarchy _is_ a word, but triumvirate is more the common synonym: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumvirate

I just installed nix Single-user installation thinking it was just another Package manager - But it is so much more - none of your nix-env commands work ? Please make your terminal text bigger ( Ctrl + shift and + ) to make smaller ( Ctrl and - )

thanks for this series! your demeanor, pacing, and topic choice is excellent. I'm going through the whole playlist before my first attempt and it's all "clicking" pretty well at the moment thanks to your efforts.

So Burke how do I get NIX installed on Windows 10 ? And how it fits in the Windows World ? How do I get it installed ? H

Maybe a little meta but is there a way to install Comma without really installing it? :P

zsh looks pretty handy with command completion showing previous commands automatically

It's so brillantly explained, thanks !!!

Thanks for the basic instructions! It was surprisingly difficult to find an explanation of how to run a nix script!

Hey do you think you could make a nix installation video on MAC Big Sur

Can you release your home.nix publicly? I want to setup my zsh installation the smae way you have.

good job man

Cool stuff, I've been using nix-shell -p for the same propose but without the binary search functionality

Awesome! I 100% agree with your premise and the conclusion. Yes, Nix is amazing and solves one of the biggest problems we have in software development. Yes, most people start to learn about it in some specific use-case (NixOS, nix-shell, nix-env, home-managers). And yes, there is virtually no good resource on actually understanding what it is or does. So many articles, Q&As, forum or blog posts assume some prior knowledge, documentation is hard to find and split up over many different locations. This video was already a huge help. I’ve read so much about Nix and played around with it for a year, but it’s always been frustrating because I always felt like I didn’t get it. This is the first time I ever felt like I actually understood. Thank you so, so much making for this! I’ll be binging your playlist now :)

What terminal do you use and how do you get it to fill your screen like that in macOS?

Bro i had no understanding of what NixOS really was but now I do. Please do more tutorials because it will help alot of other people.

hey thanks you for this video, very helpful

Thanks!

The small functional features that absolutely impressed me. Generations! Why don't we have it in our regular life?

What kind of keyboard do you have?

I love the series, thanks so much for making and sharing these videos, Burke. I'd like to put my 2 cents and share 2 projects I enjoy using, a simple way to update ls_colors with hex codes with github.com/sharkdp/vivid (this project deserves more stars imo) and a faster colorls that supports ls_colors github.com/Peltoche/lsd (the only thing that bothers me with lsd is that the -l option has some hardcoded colors but there are PRs on the way)

To fix 'tput: unknown terminal "xterm-termite"' try 'export TERM=xterm-256color'