nix-installers VS dotfiles

If you install it from the community RPM installer, it works as they have SELinux support added: https://github.com/nix-community/nix-installers

I tried to install the Nix package manager on my Fedora 37 machine. Having read about some issues with installing Nix with the install script on Fedora and other OS, using Selinux, I chose install via "nix-installers" rpm-packe (https://github.com/nix-community/nix-installers/issues/16). Unfortunately, I get warnings about created uids throughout the install process not being in the scope of `SYS_UID_MAX 999`. Furthermore, after rebooting the computer, I end up with a flickering black screen instead of on my (Gnome) Desktop environment.

Looks like you already found u/adisbladis legacy installers and opened a feature request for Silverblue support. Your best bet would be to start learning how SELinux policies work and see if you can adapt those for the way that you've set up Silverblue, or to see if you can modify the RPM builder to accommodate Silverblue by putting the Nix store under /var and bind mounting it onto /nix, like those other instructions floating around do.

There's work to add nix to silverblue via community packaging: https://github.com/nix-community/nix-installers/pull/8

I think nonguix also uses equivalent machinery for its Steam package: https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix/-/blob/master/nongnu/pack...

Maybe there are docs on repurposing that someone more familiar with nonguix can point to.

Apparently there is an rpm-ostree-friendly RPM build of Nix that can be used to install Nix on Silverblue as well: https://github.com/nix-community/nix-installers/pull/8

It includes some code to get around the group/user management quirks that some other commenters have noted b0rked the Guix installer, so perhaps it gives an outline of how to install Guix on Silverblue for a hacker who'd like to try it :)

Now that this binary installer exists I would definitely recommend it.

I’ve deleted Homebrew from my system and I’m now using the same home-manager setup for my macOS laptops as well as my WSL installation on windows.

It’s so great to have the exact same tools and shell configuration installed everywhere.

I have not used flakes yet but if that will help me deal with the differences between my systems I’m definitely for it!

E.g I have a work Mac, personal Mac, personal PC with WSL.

When on my work machine, usernames are different and my Git config should identify me as me, and I shouldn’t have access to my personal credential for personal GitHub, RSA private keys for personal servers, etc.

But all else should be the same.

Mostly there but the credentials part I am still figuring out.

If you want to check it out, it’s here: https://github.com/leonbreedt/dotfiles

Won’t work for you out of the box tho as it depends on private repo for sensitive configs.