Full NixOS Guide: Everything You Need to Know in One Place!

My Config: github.com/Andrey0189/nixos-c...
Download NixOS: nixos.org/download/
Nixpkgs search: search.nixos.org/packages
Disko templates: github.com/nix-community/disk...
NixOS Manual: nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/
Nix Reference Manual: nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/i...
Nix pills: nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/06...
Home manager option search: home-manager-options.extranix...
Zero to Nix: zero-to-nix.com/
PhD Thesis: edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-t...
Commands for installin home-manager:
$ nix-channel --add github.com/nix-community/home... home-manager
$ nix-channel --add github.com/nix-community/home... home-manager
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• LAKEY INSPIRED - Blue Boi
• LAKEY INSPIRED - The P...
• Trance Music for Racin...
• 3 A.M Chill Session 🌌 ...
• LEMMiNO - Cipher (BGM)

[@oglothenerd]

You and Vimjoyer are probably the future of NixOS actually having good tutorials and documentation.

[@callyral]

There are also a lot of unofficial guides online, a lot of them in blogs.

[@cariyaputta]

Looking forward to the Nix Drama video.

[@JaLikon65]

My brother in christ - this is EASILY the best intro to Nix I've ever found! Thank you so much for putting this together. You covered so much ground here, from clearly explaining the benefits of Nix, to the basics of the Nix language (which I've never seen any other Nix video go over), to productively using NixOS. I mean this is seriously just awesome man! Thank you so much for putting this together!

[@user-vw2qt8vp8e]

anime waifu at the side of a nix tutorial sign me up

[@noisetide]

the confiscation of the nix-chan meme made my day!

[@scar6073]

She's cuter than windows-chan

[@YingjieWang247]

Awesome! As a linux user, I have heard of NixOS and got interested in it since two months ago, I did install it in a virtual machine, but never really understood what's going on in it, so just put the virtual machine there. This video is so clear and makes me feel like I can play with it again!

[@luv2stack]

I knew nothing of nix before this video. It looks evolutionary

Great presentation. Kudos also for wayland vs X11 & hyprland.

[@fsefso7587]

In 17:42 it should be --update instead of update, great vid btw :)

[@Ampersand-xc9jp]

You are absolutely right, I genuinely forgot about that 😅

[@j1d7s]

Thanks for the information-packed video! I tried out NixOS once but did not continue. I may not yet have felt the pain enough on my Arch based system to do the switch, but I am intrigued and may start soon trying it out on a spare laptop.

[@cl4655]

Always a surprise finding Creo enjoyers randomly on the internet

[@Jarx246]

represent

[@scar6073]

Thank you so much for this! Finding good nix resources is so hard

[@BettersonMcgee]

very informative and interesting! Thank you!

[@maxreuv]

Excellent intro, thank you!

[@randomsearches369]

You are the one, Thanks a lot!

[@greob]

Nice walkthrough thanks for sharing

[@plbr2]

О, а вот и причина пересмотреть твой видос по NixOS)

[@alexvarnavsky3739]

Man what a great work 😅

[@evo6670]

Great Video! Help me a lot. Want to see the vim video. 😂

[@e-v-o-l-v-e]

this is an really good video

[@TheMotorcycleBoy-pe2eg]

Very good presentation

[@nerdg2]

thank you!

[@niksingh710]

i need a nix vim guide but i also felt you kindda skipped or tried to compress the content to make it in short time span i would like to see this elaborated

[@sharukhrahman7925]

Hi im new to linux and i want to (just learn) how to do a minimal install.. if possible can you make a video of that in the future?

[@BlackTakGolD]

Some of the description's links are not formatted correctly.

[@johnr3936]

I would love a deeper dive into flakes. As a software dev they would be very necessary for all my random projects though after a few hours of research its hard to see how they fit into the system.

[@originzz]

We need an r/unixwaifus

[@Nerd2Ninja]

Alright watched the video. It was okay I guess. I take things really slow though. Kinda wish there was a video series for flakes the same way there are video series to learn other programming languages. I know it sounds like "why?" like it should be too simple for that at first, but really go over every programming language edgecase. How do you install a node.js program with a flake, how do you install a golang package? I think the most basic flake tutorials only cover installing C programs right? and then it could progress from there into dream2nix or something after all those cases are covered.

[@fabianoslack4269]

4:19 ok, i get the idea regarding to binaries. But what about config files. Maybe package 1.1.0 and 1.2.0 will receive instructions from a config file and this can create an struggle here, right? Lets say config file for 1.1.0 have a property while config file for 1.2.0 have same property and once these two different are executed , they crash due to common values touching each other on the system… Im new to nixos (found it few hours ago, so i dont know if my question is dumb or not). Let me know. Nice video and thank you!

[@CrazyMineCuber]

Configuration is normally treated completely separately from the binaries on NixOS. Configuration is instead treated through the NixOS module system, which compiles the /etc directory and creates symlinks from /etc to the configuration files in /nix/store. For configs in your home directory, NixOS by default does not manage your home directory. That is what home-manager is for. Normally, you do not have multiple versions of the same application installed. If you do, both versions are probably configured to read from the same config file, so they will just use that one. If you somehow manage to convince the NixOS module system to generate two versions of the same config file, you will get a compilation error and you have to fore chose which version to use.

[@Ampersand-xc9jp]

Yeah, basically, both packages read from the same config. If these configurations are incompatible between versions, it can lead to conflicts and crashes. But I personally haven't encountered crashes because of the different package versions

[@grzesjedrzejak399]

Question to creator if video! Can you list me advantages that nix os has over debian? But, be real i dont need a reproducaple system and i use linux to work (hardware design and embedded). I am planning to use nix at arm, is it good idea?

[@user-vw2qt8vp8e]

Debian is just shit man if not nixos might as well use arch but not debian no good support or community you gotta figure it out thru old arse forums + not that great of a package manager too

[@Ampersand-xc9jp]

If you want a really stable system where you control almost everything, then you'll like NixOS more than Debian. Also, if you are going to use multiple ARM devices, Nix's declarative approach ensures that your setup can be reproduced reliably across them. There are fewer resources specifically tailored to using Nix on ARM compared to x86. However, this gap is gradually narrowing as interest in ARM-based systems grows

[@grzesjedrzejak399]

@@Ampersand-xc9jp Thank you.

[@chickenonaraft508]

If this was around earlier, we wouldn’t have needed Docker

[@88farrel]

based

[@AlaaSaidAhmad]

Nice wallpaper how can I download it

[@edhyjoxenbyl1409]

The pacakge manager graph is slightly out of date, we are that 92000 packages :)

[@the_mong_]

This is the video

[@wanmixc2968]

Need more tutorial ricing...

[@Edgar-pu1lc]

Theme and icon name in neovim ?

[@Ampersand-xc9jp]

Oxocarbon

[@rwz]

This video could only get better with chapters!

[@iblamefps]

I think it's almost time to divorce arch

[@Rthabett]

U r config link is broken

[@MaksimBorzik]

Nvidia drivers breaks argument "if it doesn't work there it won't work anywhere")))

[@lodyllog]

Переводил нейросеткой или у тебя реально такой чистый английский?

[@iwakuralainfan]

это сценарий называется...

[@iwakuralainfan]

а так, условного б1 хватает для такого

[@lodyllog]

@@iwakuralainfan произношение довольно чистое, совсем не на б1

[@Adiee5Priv]

Yeah, i'm probably too lazy to bother, lol

[@Nerd2Ninja]

Sorry, I'm gonna watch the whole video, but right now I want you to know, it would have been glorious if you talked like a VTuber the whole time lmao.

[@Ampersand-xc9jp]

Noted

[@eli1882]

I want to like your channel, but the anime girls are repulsive

[@user-ev9vt7lq9w]

thank you for your hard work

[@LukasSmith827]

nix creatures when I `pipreqs && pip install -r requirements.txt` (the project didn't support linux (I ain't learnin allat))

[@edhyjoxenbyl1409]

do you have a discord?

[@Ampersand-xc9jp]

Not yet, but I'll create a server it at some point

[@fabianoslack4269]

By the way, what is the best discord channel for nixos?

[@TheS0meguy]

I learned so much from this video -- thanks my dude for taking the time to make it! Cheers from Argentina 🧉