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Re: NixOS on Framework Laptop

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Framework + NixOS is the most exciting hardware + OS going IMHO. If someone wants to do a crowdfunding or devpay or similar to make them work out of the box together, I will gladly donate or pay.

Can you do NixOS without systemd? If not, I'd look elsewhere for the distro. Maybe Guix?

Just take the time to learn systemd. Once you do, like nix, it saves so much time

Re: NixOS on Framework Laptop

#22
post #4

> Mozilla requires LUKS full-disk encryption, and having it setup conflicted with NVidia’s proprietary driver I’ve seen this warning in the Ubuntu docs. Can someone explain exactly why a GPU driver would cause issues with disk encryption and UEFI boot?

It works fine if /boot is unencrypted. You can encrypt the rest of / and it's fine.

Ditto running encrypted root without any issue

Re: NixOS on Framework Laptop

#24
I take it the big vendors (HP, Dell, etc) are now going to start adopting Framework's business model? If not the obviously somebody's gonna try and buy them for billions.

Re: NixOS on Framework Laptop

#25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you do NixOS without systemd? If not, I'd look elsewhere for the distro. Maybe Guix?

Just take the time to learn systemd. Once you do, like nix, it saves so much time

Yeah no point in fighting it. It’s the standard. Learn to love SystemD.

Re: NixOS on Framework Laptop

#27
post #13

Framework + NixOS is the most exciting hardware + OS going IMHO. If someone wants to do a crowdfunding or devpay or similar to make them work out of the box together, I will gladly donate or pay.

It's not what you're asking but I wonder if NixOS's hardware repo could expand to support Framework with some good defaults

That being said, I think there could be a good use case for "meta" NixOS distributions. I'm working on such a thing for a NixOS based RetroArch type thing. But could see a PopOS like configuration, focused on on an “out the box experience”

https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware

Re: NixOS on Framework Laptop

#28
post #12

My Framework DIY just arrived this morning. I finished the build and installation of PopOS about an hour ago, but now I’m contemplating trying out NixOS due to this blog post. Looks amazing!

Oo how's Pop OS?

So far, incredible! Still setting up my environment, but as far as how it’s running on the Framework, I 100% see myself fully transitioning to it from my MacBook.

Desktop wise, I’ve been using PopOS for 7-8 months now, so it’s quite great to have that same setup in a portable fashion now.

Re: NixOS on Framework Laptop

#30
post #4

> Mozilla requires LUKS full-disk encryption, and having it setup conflicted with NVidia’s proprietary driver I’ve seen this warning in the Ubuntu docs. Can someone explain exactly why a GPU driver would cause issues with disk encryption and UEFI boot?

And what does Mozilla have to do with it?

Mozilla the organization, not Mozilla the browser. It's common for companies to require their employees to use full-disk encryption on all devices that store company data.
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