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The original author is Dutch. In Dutch, "niks" (same pronunciation as Nix), actually means "nothing". His nickname is niksnut, which means "good-for-nothing".
> His nickname is niksnut, which means "good-for-nothing". In german that would be Nichtsnutz. Would the english word deadbeat mean the same?
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I use configuration on macos as well, so I'm not sure what you mean?
Yeah, Home Manager is more redundant if you're using Nix-Darwin for a configuration.nix. Non-NixOS Linux doesn't have an equivalent module system to Nix-Darwin, though, so if you want a module system for declarative config there it's Home Manager.
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You don't have to specify the nixosConfiguration name (e.g ~/flake#my-configuration)? Do you just name it "default" or something for that to work? I've never tried that.
You name it the same as your current system's hostname.
I would love to see a discussion from somebody who really likes Nix on why it isn't ready for prime time yet/just play devil's advocate aloud on why it isn't the greatest thing since sliced bread. I feel like I must not be doing anything "serious" enough to need package reproducibility at that high level. I'm aware of things like git checkout/tags, package-lock.json, Cargo.lock, Docker image tags. What is a real worl…
Fragmented documentation. Flakes are still "experimental" and their interface subject to change, but they're also widely acknowledged to be the better way to use Nix. There aren't that many Flakes-first docs, and many existing documents describe things that don't really work with Flakes, so the already incomplete & fragmented docs are even more incomplete & fragmented than it seems at first! AFAICT, there's no way to…
For now there's nix-runner: https://github.com/clhodapp/nix-runner
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I use configuration on macos as well, so I'm not sure what you mean?
Yeah, Home Manager is more redundant if you're using Nix-Darwin for a configuration.nix. Non-NixOS Linux doesn't have an equivalent module system to Nix-Darwin, though, so if you want a module system for declarative config there it's Home Manager.
Would also be awesome to see something like this for NixOS.
Just my two cents: Nix doesn’t guarantee “reproducible”, just “repeatable”. (I think it’s helpful to keep these technical concepts distinct, and to introduce the right terminology when teaching, since it makes elaboration easier in the future.)
I wish guides like these contained screenshots. Do people use Nix for desktop OSes? As a VM they SSH into? A collection of config scripts that they don't directly issue commands to? I certainly can't tell from a quick glance of this guide
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For me, i use it on my Desktop because i love things being stable for my work environment. I don't want an upgrade over the weekend to cause problems come Monday morning. I've had my system get "borked" on updates in the past, and Nix lets me revert very very easily. Also upgrading libraries for one App can easily be isolated from breaking other applications and etc. It's got tons of flaws (to me) , but the core idea…
For me, the "borking" issue is largely resolved by running Btrfs. Just make a snapshot shortly before updating, and then I can revert to it if needed.