HOW to REALLY learn NixOS

Thank you so much, Let's begin my journey

Damm how do you produce this quality video?? Nice info btw.

w colorscheme

Idk why I cannot unsee the logo of nixOS as an slanted hexagon

lol yeah ok let me contribute to nixpkgs without even knowing what they are or how they really work, nice first step 🤡🤡🤡

Nice

Great work, and most of all i loved the presentation simple and elegant and the animation was really smooth. what did u use to animate it and have that subtle animation of moving

Average discord mod

I used NixOS once, but it just doesn't fit my needs. It is great for programming, and I didn't have any trouble using it for only programming. But whenever I tried any other area, I just failed miserably. Setting up basic linux executable support was hell and it still didn't work even after installing all of the libraries and enabling nix-ld or whatever it was called. I should really stick to other linux distros.
Don't get me wrong, NixOS is great. It's just not for me.

Everyone talks about nix being reproducible. But nobody reproduces anything. That’s why we have VMs and snapshots and cloning without having to learn a new ecosystem. No need to reinvent the wheel.

damn son i love your pfp i may have to have someone make me something similar lol youre videos are great bro i may join your discord

Configuring NixOS is really fun! As a Linux theming enthusiast it is my favorite distro.

I saw instruction for how to build my first flake. It showed me ever last word and punctuation. It worked. But now I am confused because I am learning how to use plural "flakes"Do I add the code for other flakes into the flake.nix I already started? Or does each program need it's own flake.nix containing folder?

I wanted to use a flake and "rustup" because I thought the flake would keep rust up to date for me. But those instructions require a file called shell.nix. So I think rust can't be a flake. Flakes use flake.nix. When I try to use the Nix version of rust I get a message I need the more recent update. The custom Nix Rust didn't work with others.

I'm just a computer user. I want to use my computer for work and looking for an alternative to windows.
So much videos praising nixOS, but little showing how it's used for average users. Almost every videos talking about configurations and package manager, which I, as an average user neither have an idea about, nor really interested in that.
Oh, well that probably means that in terms of usability for average users, nixOS is just another Linux distro.

wdym by using nix as a development tool?

What’s the benefit of this over using Ansible?

Yeah, no. Every video I see immediately delves deep into the weeds, spewing a bunch of Nix terminology as if I already have it installed. Here’s how my path with learning Nix went:
1. I figured I’d install it on my machine and start experimenting with config files, slowly learning it, then switch to flakes, splitting config into multiple files, etc
2. I booted up the image, launched the installer
3. Saw no way to enable full-disk encryption during installation
4. Googled for 10 minutes through “oh yeah, you just gotta know how to do it, here’s 10 commands with variations depending on your setup” threads
5. Gave up

Make a video how to contribute to nixpkgs, like how to test your changes etc.

I had a quick go, but gave up.

Basically spend time to learn it. This is not cereal flakes.

Very complex and difficult to use
It also does not follow Linux standards

Sounds like I need to get Flaky with Flakes on nixOS.

NixOS is really cool but its really not for everyone, the average user doesnt really want to write a config for their system in text.

You lost me at the part about poor documentation being a part of the nixos experience. Thanks, but no thanks 😅

I really want to use this OS, but it conflicts with Julia's plotting packages. I'm 90% sure there is a fix for this, but I just don't have the experience to solve it on my own and the start of the academic semester is approaching. I think I'll leave learning Nix for later.

catpuccin?

you talk too fast

I tried it, but even as a linux user for decades, it was really not good at all. Sure, it can probably be set up to be nice to use, but OOT it was terible. Nix package manager is nice though

cool video

If you need to learn it, the future is dire

Really nice and clear, good video!

Great video! So happy I found this channel 😊 As you recommend contributing to nixpkgs, would it be possible for you to make a video going through this process? I've been looking to contribute, but with nixpkgs being so large it seems so unwieldy 😅

I dont feel comfortable using flakes as long as they are still experimental.

Just curious, what color scheme and font is used in this video? it looks really nice!

While reproducibility is a valuable feature, I consider the reusability and localized configurations in NixOS as the most powerful aspects for me as a user (not DevOps). Continuously enhancing configurations to suit specific requirements, along with effortless rollbacks and deployment on other machines, are truly remarkable!

Masterful work as always Ioga! Can't wait for the upcoming videos!

Great summary, the steps you've described happen to match my journey pretty much exactly from using standalone Nix with dev environments a few months ago all the way to just having pushed my own handcrafted NixOS flake to GitHub. Amazing stuff, can't see myself using anything else at this point!

I use nix for development tools, not need nixos because learning curve is high

Every new Nix/NixOS user must watch this video, great job Ioga 🐧❄

I hope it's not the future and just as alternative.

i switched to nix after bricking grub on my arch install. really loving it so far!