mobile-nixos VS nixos-apple-silicon

For now, only information about Ubuntu Touch support is available on our website. We plan to extend that to PostmarketOS and NixOS. But which devices does Ubuntu Touch support? For example those:

Github has more recent activity: https://github.com/NixOS/mobile-nixos

NixOS/mobile-nixos

Any nixos users here? Anyone have any luck running mobile nixos?

samueldr has been doing a lot of work in that direction. See https://mobile.nixos.org/

With the code from https://github.com/NixOS/mobile-nixos/pull/445, build the demo example with nix-build --argstr device pine64-pinephonepro -A outputs.temp-tow-boot-install-script examples/demo/; of course instead of example/demo you can have your own configuration, but I started with demo

https://github.com/NixOS/mobile-nixos/pull/361

Though you might want to ask around for your particular use case. While basic support (it boots) is right around the corner, it's probably not yet at a point where it'll be nice to use.

As for what I did with those zip files? I made the equivalent for another Linux on Android devices distro. The implementation probably won't suit your tastes, but it's something else to look at to figure out what can be done.

I just used this: https://github.com/tpwrules/nixos-apple-silicon/blob/main/do...

I used one of their releases rather than building my own image. It’s a guide that merits careful reading, as some key steps are not specifically bulleted. Oh, and it’s not the NixOS graphical installer.

But it was dead simple, and 99% of the heavy lifting is from the Asahi team. The biggest downside is that updating the support files is a manual process, but NixOS of course makes it a breeze to rebuild into a new environment—and back out if it doesn’t work.

I doubt it will ever have native support. NixOS doesn't do native support. For what it's worth I'm running NixOS on an M2 Max MPB using https://github.com/tpwrules/nixos-apple-silicon.

Most hardcore Nix users/developers I have met have been suspicious for Flakes for several years, so your point rings true.

That said, it feels like they are slowly coming to terms with it and just accepting it as default. Here are two examples of maintainers eventually accepting flake support on their repos after initial hesitation [1][2].

[1] https://github.com/tpwrules/nixos-apple-silicon/pull/47

I do, no issues at all with the beta Asahi kernel, you basically have to git clone https://github.com/tpwrules/nixos-apple-silicon in /etc/nixos/, include a file from that repo in the configuration.nix and configure as you like (beta gpu driver or not, which kernel, 4k pages or not, ecc). The experience then is exactly the same as a stock NixOS installation.

there is a NixOS iso for m1 you can use it https://github.com/tpwrules/nixos-apple-silicon