nixos-anywhere
nixos-and-flakes-book
nixos-anywhere | nixos-and-flakes-book | |
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6 | 9 | |
1,083 | 1,537 | |
11.4% | - | |
8.8 | 9.6 | |
6 days ago | 9 days ago | |
Shell | Nix | |
MIT License | Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 |
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nixos-anywhere
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NixOS: Declarative Builds and Deployments
I have step-by-step video guides (with accompanying git repos) for booting NixOS from zero on both Hetzner VPS instances[1] and bare metal Robot instances[2] with nixos-anywhere[3]. I used to use nixos-infect but now I'm 100% sold on nixos-anywhere.
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr22CyoyRo4
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlX8g0NXW1M&t=952s
[3]: https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-anywhere
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An Overview of Nix in Practice
I think things are pretty good with nixos-anywhere[1] now. I made a video last month walking through the process of provisioning a VPS on Hetzner Cloud[2] if you want to see what the process looks like in real-time.
[1]:https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-anywhere
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr22CyoyRo4
- NixOS-anywhere: install NixOS everywhere via SSH
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NixOS RFC 136 accepted: A plan to stabilize the new CLI and Flakes incrementally
> I can speak new instances of my environment into existence
You're not kidding. I used nixos-anywhere [1] for the first time the other day. You can point it to any linux host and it will partition, format, and supplant the target's existing OS with your nixOS config, all with a single command. Incredible.
[1] https://github.com/numtide/nixos-anywhere
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Is it possible to morph Debian into NixOS?
There's a few scripts to replace the current os with NixOS: eg https://github.com/numtide/nixos-anywhere
nixos-and-flakes-book
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NixOS: Declarative Builds and Deployments
I'll be honest, the first few times I tried using Nix I just couldn't get into. It was too complex for the benefits I was getting. But that was using Nix on another OS.
I recently switched to NixOS because I wanted what they were selling and the experience this time around was way better. Having no other option but to figure it out made me learn the essentials real quick (like an exchange program to a foreign country that speaks another language).
If you think about it, when you used Ubuntu or Fedora or RHEL for the first time, and probably for a very long time, you could get by without learning the deep intricacies of what is going on behind the scenes. The same is true with NixOS. The things you need to learn are different, but once you get a basic setup with home-manager setup you're off to the races. (Btw, I used this "book" to get started and it was great: https://nixos-and-flakes.thiscute.world/)
The best part about using NixOS so far is that things just work. Setting up my graphics card was as simple setting enabled = true. Same for configuring specific audio frameworks. And I had tried many times to get Davinci Resolve working on other distros and always encountered issues leading me to need to dual-boot Windows so I could do video editing. Now I just enabled Davinci Resolve and it works! No more Windows.
If you're brand new to linux on the desktop, I wouldn't recommend it. But if you've been doing that for years, maybe try NixOS in 2024.
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What is the current recommended documentation when starting out with NixOs?
i'm new to nixos too, i found this
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Flakes Question (because I'm a noob)
I found this guide really beginner friendly: https://nixos-and-flakes.thiscute.world/
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NixOS and Flakes Book: An unofficial book for beginners (free)
their GH releases page has a PDF, if that helps you, or browsing around the .md files may help what I presume is your noscript browser, assuming that GH works with noscript anymore: https://github.com/ryan4yin/nixos-and-flakes-book/releases/d...
- NixOS and Flakes Book
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NixOS Wiki – the unofficial user wiki
It would be useful if the wiki articles showed a 'last modified at' date. Articles like this [0] dominate search results, but it's not clear how outdated the info is. I
In case anyone is looking for an up-to-date NixOS guide/cookbook, I've found lots of value in this [1] resource.
[0] - https://nixos.wiki/wiki/PulseAudio
[1] - https://nixos-and-flakes.thiscute.world/
- GitHub - ryan4yin/nixos-and-flakes-book: An unofficial NixOS & Flakes book for Beginners.
- Updates: NixOS & Nix Flakes - A Guide for Beginners
What are some alternatives?
nixos-infect - [GPLv3+] install nixos over the existing OS in a DigitalOcean droplet (and others with minor modifications)
nix-config - ❄️ my nix config for both desktops(NixOS+macOS) and homelab servers(NixOS).
nixos-playwright - DEPRECATED. Tell your puppeteer or playwright to use nixpkgs's google-chrome-dev's google-chrome-unstable binary. Previously: Patch playwright-downloaded browsers in ~/.cache/ms-playwright to run on NixOS
wiki - Nixos wiki [maintainer=@samueldr]
nixos-generators - Collection of image builders [maintainer=@Lassulus]
rfcs - The Nix community RFCs
bento - A KISS deployment tool to keep your NixOS fleet (servers & workstations) up to date.
vitepress - Vite & Vue powered static site generator.
gokrazy - turn your Go program(s) into an appliance running on the Raspberry Pi 3, Pi 4, Pi Zero 2 W, or amd64 PCs!
distrobox - Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with. Mirror available at: https://gitlab.com/89luca89/distrobox
bootstrap-from-tcc - Starting with a single ~400 KB TinyCC binary, compile a Clang 17 toolchain and Nix package manager
nix-starter-configs - Simple and documented config templates to help you get started with NixOS + home-manager + flakes. All the boilerplate you need!