NixOS Config - Autologin - Flatpak - Fonts - Polkit - Release Upgrade

[@KentHambrock]

As someone who loves functional languages like Erlang, NixOS sounds like it might be my favorite OS. I'd love to see more structured content on it if you're willing.

[@adjbutler]

Please keep doing Nix stuff...

[@zeocamo]

you can split up the config, so all the hardware stuff that is not good for other pc's is in one config file, this way it will work for others too.

[@user-db4dd4ze3n]

On the same page where you are looking for the packages there is a "NixOS options" on the top of the page to search for the configurations options, also if you enable a service you dont need to specify those services packages in the configuration.

[@agh0x01]

For an OCD guy, you seem pretty relaxed about indentation! :D

[@magnificoas388]

fantastic tuto !! you are the NixOS king TT...by the way "#" means root :)

[@CarlosReyes-ku6ub]

Niiiice NixOS content

[@nathancoats6432]

I have also noticed that ChatGPT helps a lot with command line help when using the terminal just have to make sure you put your question in right.

[@johngleeson7919]

New to NixOS, but I got some nice virtualisation working quickly by just installing quickemu as a system pkg.

[@JosephHarry]

Nix looks fun, just too many crazy paths. Running U-blue on most of my computers and other than wanting to build my own it runs nice, with more normal paths.

[@U1TR4F0RCE]

Yeah the talk of the perfect system and trying to move over to nix has inspired me to try and make a bash script to install apps and implement my configs but NixOS seems a bit too intense.

[@wisnoskij]

10:00 would you not need to create some sort of nerdfont variable before using that command, surly nixOS does not come with a nerdfont variable already existing?

[@arlo314]

There's already a 'with pkgs' before the list containing the nerdfonts variable, and this is where it comes from.

[@wisnoskij]

@@arlo314 OK, thanks for the explanation, that makes sense.

[@leediffusion]

Well I used the graphiccal installer, which gives you more graphical desktop options, including no desktop at all! Goes on as easily as other distro's as it uses a common installer, however it will take a lot time investment to get used to the Nix way of doing things. Already I can see I've made newbie mistakes and will have to start again

[@miallo]

I totally get that - it took me a loooong time to more or less understand NixOS. In the very beginning I actually managed to misconfigure it in such a way that I broke my very first "generation" and so I had to reinstall it from the scratch. But the nice thing about NixOS is that once you have a working generation you can always boot into an older working one. E.g. just a few weeks ago I messed up my hard drive encryption and I could not boot any more... Well - not into the newest generation, but the previous was working just fine, so I could boot it from there and fix the problem. With most other distros this would have been impossible to fix. But yes - it takes a long time to learn the nix way and even after two years I still make mistakes (though I am in the happy position to use it at work and when I am running into the limits of my own knowledge I can just ask others for help ^^). I would not recommend NixOS to everyone because of the complexity (sometimes, other things are a lot easier...) and relatively weak documentation, but I like it and would not want to give it up anymore

[@mELTINGsKYsTUDIOS]

I know this is a year old, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get polkit running on Nixos with sway. I followed along and cant seem to get it to work.

[@adjbutler]

neovim config is next ???

[@DanyelLawson]

Click the options link at the top when you are searching for packages and vice versa. If there is an option it will do a lot of the work for you and saves you from adding a package to the list. Installing flatpaks on NixOS, really?Nix is in the name for a reason. ;) Pro tip: sort your package list and all the options in your file for easy visual search and insert.

[@vicmac3513]

Will you accept the job offer?

[@xc13z829]

Is it possible to leave out polkit? It seems ubiquitous, and every distro uses it.

[@eliasferm7006]

security.polkit.enable = false;

[@aquariuskiwilog]

Really excited about the reproducibility and such but... wow.. This scares me of it, I will stick to Arch/EndevourOS for some time longer me thinks.

[@unclefester9113]

At first look...... NixOS seems like a different version of Gentoo. It seems overwhelming. (I'll pull that back some) I did get it to install easily. But installing stuff seems rather mystical at best.

[@HypeItNow]

Hi all, as anyone been successful in running desktop manager in nixos installed from live cd in hyper-v host?

[@genericgamer1319]

enabling services adds the required packages to environment.systemPackages you don't have to do it manually