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SkyMarshal · 2022-07-20 15:16:11

For anyone interested in learning Nix Flakes:

https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/v2xpjm/big_list_of_f...

srid | karma 538 | avg karma 4.01 · | 2024-01-22 01:18:03

Hey, I wrote this!

For those curious, this is actually just first a series of Nix tutorials we planned to write: https://nixos.asia/en/nix-tutorial

The same goes for NixOS tutorial series: https://nixos.asia/en/nixos-tutorial

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amarshall | karma 2108 | avg karma 4.09 · | 2021-11-30 01:18:19

Ass that article says, it’s possible but awkward. It gets better with Flakes https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Flakes

mixedCase | karma 4317 | avg karma 2.74 · | 2022-02-21 18:30:33

If it's of any use: feel free to try it out on a Linux VM to see it's also the case, but the other day I helped a coworker set-up Nix on macOS and no daemon restart was necessary after enabling flakes.

I'd love to comment on the article other than it looking very thorough, but being a NixOS user means I'm cursed to not be able to tell what "obvious" thing you might have missed. What I can say is "congratulations on posting a beginner's course knowing full well you're cursed as well", and thanks for publishing your blog! I've found it to be a great resource multiple times.

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42jd | karma 720 | avg karma 9.86 · | 2022-01-24 15:20:25

I wrote a blog post on NixOS/home manager configurations with nix flakes. I make sure to link out to other resources for those who don’t have the whole background. See: https://jdisaacs.com/blog/nixos-config/

g3rv4 | karma 747 | avg karma 7.86 · | 2023-07-18 17:11:31

I'm submitting this with the hope that folks share other NixOS tutorials.

rstarast | karma 288 | avg karma 3.74 · | 2023-08-22 11:04:09

The reception on the nixos discourse is worth a look: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/introducing-flakehub/32044

matthewcroughan | karma 14 | avg karma 0.47 · | 2023-07-27 04:40:01

Nix. Nix. Nix. Nix. Nix.

Nix.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uixRE8xlbY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Le0IbPRzOE

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yewenjie | karma 3539 | avg karma 4.85 · | 2021-09-14 18:23:44

Oh this is so interesting. I switched to NixOS (with Flakes) about a week ago and will really love to see more projects in the ecosystem.

domenkozar | karma 567 | avg karma 5.45 · | 2021-04-09 11:08:55+00:00

I've written a few tutorials at https://nix.dev/, more to come in following months :)

xena | karma 7300 | avg karma 5.69 · | 2022-09-13 07:41:11

If you can help me get a Nix flake running on Fly, I'll try it!

pxc | karma 4627 | avg karma 1.8 · | 2023-01-23 14:09:16

The Nix team, including the Nix author and chief developer of flakes (upstream in this thread, so be kind all), is also working right now on enabling the nix3 UI for non-flakes setups as well: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/2023-01-16-nix-team-meeting-mi...

Consensus is hard but I'm glad to see people coming together on this. Really looking forward to seeing the new Nix command and flakes move forward (independently)

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anotherhue | karma 5092 | avg karma 4.02 · | 2024-01-18 02:07:29

I recently ported this to Nix if anyone is itching to try it.

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/237151

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chaorace | karma 1596 | avg karma 3.77 · | 2024-01-08 17:45:12

Let's see how it fares against a Nix flake: https://github.com/hyprland-community/hyprland-nix

pxc | karma 4627 | avg karma 1.8 · | 2023-03-03 21:17:06

> I’ve since given up using search.nixos.org and now just grep the nixpkgs repository.

I still use search.nixos.org as well, but this is the single biggest step anyone can take to massively level up with Nix. Nixpkgs is an incredibly valuable collection of examples, both of how to use Nix and of how to configure the upstream services that NixOS supports.

It might sound ugly, or overinvolved, or intimidating, but once you add the Nixpkgs codebase to your list of reference documents, many things become way faster and easier.

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kreetx | karma 1427 | avg karma 1.44 · | 2024-04-01 08:46:09

Here is the discussion https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/300055

robbyt | karma 22 | avg karma 0.06 · | 2014-06-30 16:26:18

Interesting- and there's also http://nixos.org/

domenkozar | karma 567 | avg karma 5.45 · | 2020-11-08 22:06:21+00:00

I'm working on Nix tutorials at https://nix.dev - let me know what's missing :)

ghuntley | karma 8128 | avg karma 7.53 · | 2021-08-20 01:39:30

If you want to take nixos for a spin in your browser head to https://github.com/gitpod-io/template-nixos and mash the button.

Also https://nix.dev is one of the better learning resources. Over at https://GitHub.com/ghuntley/ghuntley you'll find a workshop I created on Nix.

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e3bc54b2 | karma 1908 | avg karma 4.81 · | 2021-06-02 15:43:31+00:00

I've been smitten by NixOS ever since I first tried it 2 years ago. Its the first carefree experience I've had with my system. As a side note, this result includes first tiny contributions of mine!

That said, I really hope the community gets their stuff together on Flakes. They're designated as experimental and official document doesn't recommend them, but all the cool kids are already using them everywhere and it is fracturing the efforts and alienating newcomers.

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