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fennecOS
| nix-book | fennecOS | |
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| 5 | 1 | |
| 209 | 7 | |
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| 0.6 | 2.7 | |
| about 1 year ago | 22 days ago | |
| Nix | ||
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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nix-book
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A configuration management system for pets, not cattle
This seems more approachable than NixOS/Guix, which I see as state or the art for declarative hosts.
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/documentation-team-flattening-... aims to flatten the learning curve for NixOS.
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Our Roadmap for Nix
We're onto the pedagogy thing. Check out the Nix book efforts: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/documentation-team-flattening-....
Regarding the language and "configurations" specifically, you might like what we do with Nickel: https://github.com/tweag/nickel. Research project showing a potential future for Nix.
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Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010)
Wouldn't say there's a steep learning curve for the language itself, it's pretty easy to get a grasp around it imo. Here's a helpful page I used to quickly get familiar with the language: https://github.com/tazjin/nix-1p
What's rather messy about Nix is nixpkgs with its helper functions all over the place alongside pretty shallow / non-existent documentation (which is unrelated to the language). Thankfully they've started to work on that recently: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/documentation-team-flattening-...
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Gui installer (Calamares) seems to be available in the unstable iso
yess https://github.com/NixOS/nix-book
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How should nix be used?!
there are efforts to better document the whole ecosystem (https://github.com/NixOS/nix-book)
fennecOS
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Our Roadmap for Nix
I love nix, I've been using it for the last 2 years, I have a very stable setup from these 2 years of effort [0], and I just can't recommend Nix for Linux beginners, why?
Well, because everything is scattered, you have to consult many places to find out how to do things with Nix, here is my workflow:
Usually, when I need a new complex program, like Steam, I first check the system-wide configuration [1], the wiki [2] and the package list [3], if I just want it on my user, I need to check if Home Manager has an option [4], if it doesn't, I can just use the "home.packages" option. Now, if I need to override something on the package, I need to remember how to do it with [5] [6] (while checking the source code for the package in parallel to find the options).
And then sometimes, on very rare occasions, I need to fine tune something with the nix language, so I need to check the builtins/lib docs [7], but some builtins are not there, so I need to either use nix-doc [8] or find the docs inside the code-bases [9] [10] (they are split between both repos)
[0] - https://github.com/shiryel/nixos-dotfiles
What are some alternatives?
nickel-nix - An experimental Nix toolkit to use nickel as a language for writing nix packages, shells and more. [Moved to: https://github.com/nickel-lang/organist]
rnix-lsp - WIP Language Server for Nix! [maintainer=@aaronjanse]
dirs-rs - a low-level library that provides config/cache/data paths, following the respective conventions on Linux, macOS and Windows
sqlfs - Sqlite FUSE filesystem with sqlcipher support
flakes - My personal nixos configuration
nix-doc - An interactive Nix documentation tool providing a CLI for function search, a Nix plugin for docs in the REPL, and a ctags implementation for Nix script
go-nix - Elements of Nix re-implemented as Go libraries [maintainer=@flokli]
libsqlfs - a library that implements a POSIX style filesystem on top of an SQLite database
nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS
nix-1p - A (more or less) one page introduction to Nix, the language.
flake-utils - Pure Nix flake utility functions [maintainer=@zimbatm]