Getting Started with Nix

Glad to see you again

I'm testing NixOS in a VM and it has been buggy. Sometimes the UI locks up.

I'm one of those living under a rock. There distros that everyone has heard about in the top 5 or so. Then, a briefly passed over a reference to it a few days ago, but didn't stop to investigate. Then, I went to investigate the installation of a software install that stated "if you have Nix install with such-and-such installed..." (What the heck is Nix???)... I had to investigate. I really don't like Windows and MS just keeps on piling crap on and making it harder to remove said crap. But, a lot of games I've gravitated to over the years live on Win. I got tired of the not being available or trying to get them to work on Linux. But, I also found hard to deal with all the dependencies and dealing with the package managers due to all the programming languages and development tools I'm interested in. If I can find some peace in NixOS, then maybe it would be the one!

i tried to install NixOS on my old laptop. but it does not work. it needs GPT partion, MBR not work.

Please start an Academy . I'm in

Great video. Guix for the win! 😁

Absolutely love your style! So clear, articulate, and organized nicely!

You can run packages WITHOUT even dowloading them??? It's all just temporarily cached? That's crazy, man.

there is also nixops A Nix based deployment and provisioning tool allowing declarative specification of remote NixOS systems, VMs and containers; supports AWS, Hetzner, GCE and some other cloud providers out of box. NixOS is the distribution

Das wird doch eh nix.

A big praise: I stumbled upon NixOS by chance and can't get out of the amazement. I find it the best Linux concept I know so far.

I've been stubbornly trying to understand nix flakes for probably a year now. This is by far the most concise and clear info I have found. The line by line breakdown for the flake config was incredibly helpful.

So many tutorials are rushed and lack critical context, but you do a fantastic job of not just explaining what goes where but the even more critical WHY.

Thank you for this video and I'm hoping to see more of your work in the future!

each app you install is going to be added to $PATH? this is insane.

Nixos is the best linux distro period

Great video! I liked the hint on the security aspect. And also the explanation of flakes.

I wish there was a course that taught how to make programs in python with a great variety of libraries, including flask, using nix as the environment to ensure that a program can be reproducible.

Just found an subscribed to the channel for the stuff on Nix. Very well made videos. You do this very well! Looking forward to more Nix stuff!

We need more videos like tis one!,will be great a video how to keep nix update,it was difficult for me!! thanks

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Hi! Hope you're well and glad to see some new content!

Welcome back! Glad to see you sharing good knowledge.

I wonder: When the goal is reproducible builds, why didn't you have to specify your used compiler, clib, cmake, make? Are they not fetched via nix? IMO, these have to be specified to let the project be reproducible.

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Love the channel. Surprised to see it back. Watched the entire video, and didn't get it. Seems like another tool from the people who like to make things complicated like cmake. 40 years C programming and I can't grasp cmake. Like others, I'd been thinking about this channel yesterday before the video appeared - premonition is real.

Not only are you back... you've got a face too! ;)

I too didn't realise this existed... Great explanation, it's always nice to have tools like this in the back of your mind if you hit specific problems.

welcome back!

Happy to see you back 🤗

Welcome back!

Your videos on LAs and Sigrok got me back into the electronics hobby after a decade of just software engineering. Thanks for the videos, great to see you back!

I think I summoned you?🤔

Me last night, to my wife, after watching your videos on reverse engineering: “this guy made great videos. It’s too bad he hasn’t made one in 3 years”

You: *poof of dark smoke*** 😂

Gonna have to watch this a couple more times but a very interesting tool.

Glad to see you back!
Great content as always

Jesus, it was yesterday that i checked your channel videos. And was afraid you stopped your channel. And now you release a new video. Could no wait to see it before answering. Good to have you back.

Nice to see you back!

But when the world needed him most...
HE RETURNED!

alive!

Hes alive!

I can't believe you're back. I watch through your videos so often the past few years... But had completely forgotten your channel name. So when it popped up in my subscription and I clicked it I was stunned to see your return

One of my favourite channels is not abandoned. What a great day!

Hey Man! Welcome back!

Good to see you again

Welcome back!

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