NIX OS: the BEST package manager on the MOST SOLID Linux distribution

I used Arch for around 10 years, and never found any other distro particularly compelling, and never thought I would switch. Then about 6 months ago heard about Nixos, thought it was really cool, and decided to give it a try in a VM. Well, I blew away my harddrive and started a fresh install of Nixos two hours later. I've been using it since and it's been incredible.

If you are a software dev or just familiar with Apache Maven's purpose, you'd know that the exact same concept is used for this linux variant. It's actually brilliant.

Great overview. I've been trying it for two days now and I'm hooked

NixOS, in my opinion, is going to be the defacto prime Linux distro for advanced users for the Web 3.0 era.

Isn't it the same thing as salt or ansible ?

Nixos is the superior linux distro

I installed it on zfs 😁. Luckily there is very good guides and documentation.

Hmm very interesting. I will defo checkout the distro! Thanks!

"Oh wait you said snap... no that's fine, no one cares" 😂

u really couln't add NixOS download link in that long ass text?

Don't get me wrong it looks interesting, but so far I've watched 10mins of video and haven't seen anything that can't be done with for example Ubuntu + Ansble or Puppet or Chef. Learn Linux TV had such setup and tutorials about Ansible. Profit with using Ansible or any other IaC is that you're independed from distro you use. And second is that with such knowledge you become a person demanded on a job market

Would be great if the Mint team take up some of these ideas - particularly the isolated dependencies, although so far I've never had a problem in Mint so far.

cool beans

I guess NixOS really is Nick's OS

I met three Nix OS users in 2013. They were also contributing code. They have come so far.

What about using clonezilla? Its more robust in terms of copying a linux device's software to another

You are awesome Nick.

Still don't see much value in this. The number of times I've reinstalled my OS in the last 6 years is.. once, when I replaced the motherboard. Maybe for a sys admin this is useful but for a developer I don't see the point.

Please review Snowflake OS..... it's a GUI based noob friendly Nix OS derivative.

Sounds like a distro equivalent of spaghetti code. I’ll see myself out.

stable doesn't mean that you can roll back, damn idiot...

Great Channel

Loved the comment about snaps... hahaha

Nix dash oOnV hon hon hon we we we

I haven't tried using NixOS, but I'm intrigued. However I have 1 question: why do I need to reinstall my OS?
I have my Windows laptop, a home server and a couple of VPS's with ubuntu server. I'm using Windows since I bought the laptop in 2019 and it's been set and forget ever since. It's very stable.

I don't see the point of reinstalling Windows unless something happens with it or I'm buying a new laptop. The first is unlikely, the second not anytime soon. Sure in those cases I have to setup my Windows environment from scratch and restore the backed-up files, but does that justify using something like NixOS? Why are you all reinstalling your OS so often? No hate ✌️

Imagine I download (your favorite linux os flavor) and I remove a few package, add some of my favorites, then changes where files are kept so its to my liking, then I release it as AmazeOS - then everyone touts its, thats my opinion of the flood of Linux OS versions out there. Back in the day when I was redhat certified, I could go up to almost about any linux/unix (sco) box and work my way around, change ip, set firewall rules, etc... today, even the same OS changes crap up too much. I installed ubunto (not my choice) and I had a hell of a time finding the files to set the IP, what happen to /etc/sysconfig/networ.... ifcfg-eth0, it was so easy to add an ip, multiple ip's etc. and no I am not talking desktop OS, click and set an ip... honestly kinda sick of linux being more about being linux that getting crap done.

Can I copy other people’s config? 😂

Went to Tuxedo web page
can not find pricing!!!

sounds like $yourdistro with flatpak & fsarchiver OR mx-linux and their snapshot feature, but does it use systemd?

I say cool beans... 🥲

So is NixOS like if Docker was made a distro?

I downloaded it on my Mac and it did not suit my environment so I deleted it and kept homebrew.

Linux is by definition not for beginners my friend….NixOS can be installed like all other distro’s with gnome or plasma …and you don’t need to tweak anything if you are not in the mood😊

Hello, great channel. What do you think about immutable linux Os, as Fedora silverblue among others and the fact they claim to offer more secure environments ? Thanks

Apparently it's pronounced NixOS

Love to see more appreciation for NixOS.
I'd be in awe if you were to share your oppinion on GNU Guix as well.

my issue is i dont find any guide to install maya or other vfx software
:c

I know it's not exactly the same, but almost reminds me of editing the S:Startup-sequence file on my Amiga Workbench.

Thanks

As a Unix cultist I have to say write it. It's et cetera, not e, t, c. ;)
PS. Would be great to have a chance to switch to OpenRC. systemd is overbloated and damn slow.
PS.S. Fedora is damn buggy. Updated few times. Always something happens.

It has some mustache. People finding out now about it is just mind boggling. Tbh wanted to try it since 2007, but never gave it a chance. Never had a need for few versions of the same program. Plus watching a video tutorial is a lot quicker, than skimming through web pages.
I really dig the idea of config file, which removes a need for past-install script, that you have to make to remove all the trash, distro devs likes to put into your system.
For example KDE is always installed with a lot of junk that I won't use. It takes not only space on HDD, but also in menu. Quite irritating.

Could you use something like Syncthing to sync two computers completely? Eg. laptop on the go has the exact same setup and data, as the main machine at home?

Nix Os is good for large organizations which need to replicate the same software stack across teams. It has a particular use case but hardly useful for personal computer crowd. Comparing it to Arch is lackadaisical because Arch as specific use case and Nix is in completely different genre.

Good. Now we can ditch Docker on development environments.
And we can build it automagically into a docker container for Kubernetes.
Devops will be obsolete.

i been asking for this feature forever now, universal shortcuts. for example you have a game that you can add music too, to do this you have to drag and drop the sied music, now you got two copies of the same music!, if only could create a shortcut to the music and function as if dropped it in. idk if this could be implamented for older softwares or only if they make it support it but windows adds all these garbage features but never this.

Great video but, as a developer, I would hate for someone to dictate what my system should look like. It's taken me a long time to set it up exactly as I want it.

This is the worst package manager I have ever used. I am literally unable to search for packages from the command line. I do not want to open a web browser just to search for software. There are 20 different programs for each different task, and I have to dig through poor documentation to find out which does what. Why didn't they combine it all in the nix command? The syntax for installing software is gross, I don't want to type in nix-env -iA nixos.obstudio. This is unacceptably complicated for the most basic operation a package manager could perform. Very sad, your video hyped me up, but I'm unable to perform even the most basic tasks with this thing. Will stick to Arch for now. Not a critique of your video btw, it was good, but the software presented isn't.