Nix Shell

In this video I go over the basics of how to create a Nix Shell.

[@Elektrolite111]

Zooming in on the terminal would make this a it easier to read. Thanks for the video!

[@branmuller]

Read over this concept in the docs and came here for further explanation and bravo this was fantastic :)

[@henrikstanleymortensen4295]

Yet another brilliant video Wil, thank you for creating these.

[@diegonayalazo]

Thanks! Keep up with the excellent content.

[@bakedbeings]

Great info again, thanks mate. One request: please be kinder to the enter key 🙏 The smash is intense in that mic setup, a lot louder then your voice.

[@uidx-bob]

This is great will be watching all your other nix/nixos related videos!

[@ian.moran11]

Thanks for creating these videos Wil. They are great!

[@designernasser]

Great stuff! Can’t wait for the flakes video!

[@kangorillas]

Appreciate the video. Kind of beyond my knowledge skill of Linux but looking forward to diving into Nix shells eventually.

[@Becoming-Human]

Awesome! Thank you, Wil T!

[@theof6757]

Thanks dude. Can't wait for flakes!

[@TheStuzenz]

Thanks for the video - easy to follow and made sense!

[@philtoa334]

Nice.

[@youngKOkid1]

Excellent video! What are using for the slides presentation?

[@SiddharthBhal]

In the end, why did foobar output print through figlet?

[@dlahouss]

at 8:51, you can see that the foobar script echos to figlet. It is not in his example on the left.

[@edwardg7829]

is there any timeline on the video re making packages?

[@wilfridtaylor]

Going to try and make some more videos this weekend so should be soon. :)

[@brentonbills5946]

@@wilfridtaylor would love to see this as well as running Nix on a Mac.

[@mtothem1337]

How does configuration files work in shells? Will i always pull from the users directory. Or can you have unique configs for each shell?

[@wilfridtaylor]

Basically it works by letting you select a series of packages and making them available to in your current sessions path. So you have unique configs for each shell but you are limited in what you can do in the shell. Like you can't make use of nixos configuration modules to change things. You can however create your own modules and use those in a shell. An example of how to do this is in github.com/wiltaylor/neovim-flake

[@kmcdowell111]

Just a bit of constructive critique. You content is appreciated and very useful, but the problems with sound quality make it hard to listen to and extract value from. The keyboard noise is louder than your voice. Also if you can enunciate better it be much easier to understand. Cheers.

[@prezlamen]

Use font 20 when recording videos and lover resolution,this is hard to see

[@jeanrodrigues6249]

coco