NixOS Day 2 : Does it make a daily driver?

[@lvutodeath]

Thank you algorithm. Subbed.

[@maticz3923]

Using it as daily driver for a month or so After commiting to installing it as my main system, actually was motivated to learn it and it wasnt hard

[@alphaobeisance3594]

Right! It's a solid system for sure. Glad you're enjoyin it!

[@Nebulorum]

Still learning nix and nixos. From what i got you can pin versions using flakes. You can also use overlays yo get some packages from different places.

[@alphaobeisance3594]

@@Nebulorum you can manage version control through the nix configuration but you are correct in that I hear flakes helps with nix management for sure. But I'm not familiar

[@EgoOdiosis]

@@alphaobeisance3594I think flakes complete the picture for nix. It makes nix far easier to wrap your head around, I spent much less time asking “where did that bit come from” or “why/how does that work”

[@EgoOdiosis]

Using overrides seems to be the solution for what hes mentioning. It is fairly simple to override a package to a specific url of a deb or rpm package which I assume proton provides

[@alphaobeisance3594]

@@EgoOdiosis correct. in the config you can just modify the URL to reflect the version of choice in the nix configuration and rebuild. EZPZ =)

[@Alexander_Sannikov]

Not sure what kind of woes you're referring to when you're configuring kde plasma. All settings that live in your user home directory are configured in nixos exactly the same way how they're configured in every other distro (via the UI or manually). There's home-manager that actually takes care of that and allows you to edit user settings declaratively as well, but I really advice against using it for beginners, because it's just too much. So you should absolutely be able to change your kde plasma wallpapers via the right click config UI of kde plasma, you should not have to configure anything in the configuration.nix for that.

[@alphaobeisance3594]

I'll have to re-watch as I don't recall implying that kde plasma couldn't be configured. I meant to imply that most configurations could not be configured in .config but instead had to be configured from the nix directory and they're seemingly not labeled as would be expected on most any other districts. I recommend NixOS to anyone looking to learn that has the self drive required to do what reading is required to learn. As with anything. Gotta want it.

[@Alexander_Sannikov]

@@alphaobeisance3594 no, my point is that you CAN configure kde plasma and most other packages in ~/.config via their GUI and not via configuration.nix. Everything in your home directory can be configured the way you're used to. There are some plasma configuration options that you can access from configuration.nix, but you don't have to use that at all. All user configuration options are available with home-manager, but you definitely don't need that early on.

[@Xander081987]

I was going to change my config to what yours is, however I'm very new, and when I pasted it into a text editor, all the spacing was off, do you have a downloadable config? Thank you very mucy for your excellent videos.

[@alphaobeisance3594]

Hey there, sorry it took me a couple days to get back to you. I've provided the configuration at my new GitHub located here : github.com/Obe1sance/AlphaObeisance See latest Video that covers the configuration a little better here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/paPVp5V5f5KEmc0