nixos
straight.el
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Nix | Emacs Lisp | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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nixos
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The Framework Laptop 13
I enabled the pstate driver yesterday for my T14s gen3 (AMD). It almost doubled my battery life, the fan never spins anymore and it's very very quiet and cool now. You need to specifically enable it in Linux kernel, this is how I did it:
https://github.com/pimeys/nixos/commit/17e8a9e2ce4b0f34ef6cf...
It should also be used together with the `shedutil` governor for the best results.
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What’s New in Emacs 28.1?
Wayland support didn't make it... Oh well it is in version 29.
I've been using the wayland version with libgccjit many months now from their git repo and it is extremely snappy and stable editor.
My strategy to keep all of this together is a nix derivation that compiles the latest master branch with all the plugin. Oh and my config is an org file with clear comments...
https://github.com/pimeys/nixos/tree/main/desktop/emacs
All reproducible...
Btw. I recommend SystemCrafters video series Emacs from scratch. It teaches how to make a vanilla emacs to work like doom emacs does. It was helpful for me to understand the magic behind doom...
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEoMzSkcN8oPH1au7H6B7bB...
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XMonad – The Automated Tiling WM
I kind of have a thing for ThinkPads, and I have three laptops with NixOS:
- ThinkPad X1 Carbon 2018 model. Even the fingerprint reader works with this one. And fractional scaling for the 4k monitor! Config: https://github.com/pimeys/nixos/blob/main/hosts/purrpurr.nix
- ThinkPad T25. Everything except the fingerprint reader works. https://github.com/pimeys/nixos/blob/main/hosts/muspus.nix
- ThinkPad X230: Everything works here. The classic workhorse. https://github.com/pimeys/nixos/blob/main/hosts/meowmeow.nix
I never tried anything else except ThinkPads just because I'd miss the TrackPoint a lot...
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Bye Cups: Printing with Netcat
I used to dread setting up printers on any operating system. I've done it countless of times with Linux, Windows and macOS, and it's been quite common to have some kind of fight with the printer until I get my paper out.
Only recently, by buying a Brother laser printer at home, and setting all my machines to use NixOS, I haven't been needing to think about printer problems anymore. All I need is this piece of config, and the printer will Just Work with the new computer:
https://github.com/pimeys/nixos/blob/main/modules/home-servi...
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Nix is the ultimate DevOps toolkit
I did a month, diving directly into the deep end with flakes and all. I don't know, it really is hard in the beginning. Like, really hard. But eventually I got myself a setup I could use in my two laptops and workstation. A setup, that sets my home directory, all my programs and my custom desktop just the way I want. Everything is in the github repo, and installing with the flake will give me the exact experience I have in my other machines.
I tend to use lots of custom tools and commands, that are really painful to install and setup for a new machine. With NixOS all of it is just one command away.
But, I agree, it is REALLY HARD in the beginning to grasp things.
Here's my configs if you want to see how I approached my own setup: https://github.com/pimeys/nixos
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When Miguel de Icaza stopped using Linux
And I come here always to remind people in the Apple bubble, that there are big groups of us who are not thinking like that!
I'm also soon in my 40s and I had my Apple years between 2004 and 2010. I came back to Linux and kind of hate the word tinkering even. The current Linux system offers something that nobody else does: your own desktop just how you like it.
I have my configs in GitHub: https://github.com/pimeys/nixos
With this config, I can take any ThinkPad (that are plentiful, great HW and cheap), boot from USB and get the same exact desktop experience I've had for almost a decade now in twenty minutes.
And what kind of desktop? A minimal tiling window manager on top of Wayland. Exactly the applications I need. The same wallpaper as always. The same editor, the same browser, the same keyboard shortcuts, the same kernel params, the same internet setup. Sound? Always worked. With PipeWire, it even seems to work better than on my Windows installation (and replacing PulseAudio with PipeWire was a one line config change).
Now. There will be no product manager somewhere that will dictate how I use my computer. If something changes in my workflow, that comes from my configuration. Nowhere else. No advertisement for new products, no suddenly disappearing applications. If something breaks from an update, I just boot to the version before I started them and I'm back to the previous state. When updates are leaving me to a state I'm happy about, I commit them to that GitHub repo and they will work exactly the same until I decide to update again. And I run the master branch of NixOS which is breaking sometimes, and it's still much more stable experience I ever had with OSX...
Of course this is not for everybody, but please understand when celebrating the commercial offerings how there's so many of us who do not want a desktop experience dictated by product managers. Who are kind of conservative how our workflows should stay the same for years, or decades. And we are still super productive, doing our work and very happy using Linux.
I'm going to copy&paste this comment to every single Apple post from now on...
straight.el
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Alternative to LSP for C/C++ that doesn’t require installing extra packages on the system
Very dated and next to useless on large complex CPP codebases. Use a language server. I recommend the straight package manager. https://github.com/radian-software/straight.el
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Package contribution workflow
Have you tried using straight.el or the heir-apparent Elpaca? These package managers will check out the git repo of said packages, and you can easily fork them with magit and forge. That's that I do to contribute to packages.
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Help install simple package (htmlz-mode)
Thank you for your time addressing all those issues and sorry if questions were misinformed - I found your advices invaluable to understand design goals of package managers in emacs.
- Which package manager should I use?
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How do you guys install some pkgs ain't hosted on melpa?
I used straight.el, now I use Elpaca.
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doom emacs
Doom Emacs is not a package manager. It has a package manager, which is based on Straight.el.
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Boilerplate config
I have been crafting my emacs config for about 10 years. I started with vanilla and intentionally stayed away from frameworks. About two years ago I declared config bankruptcy and went down for a rewrite using use-package and straight.
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Please help me!..
First install straight.el (https://github.com/radian-software/straight.el)
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what is basic alghoritm/logic of installation packages to emacs?
ref: https://github.com/radian-software/straight.el https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package
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How can I speed up my start up times?
If you use straight and override package, you'll get a lot of your desired functionality for free. Straight's docs are excellent. I started banging away on my own setup from scratch, and while not perfect, it does what I want and the total startup time is about 1.5 seconds without doing anything to try to optimize it. If you want to see it, check it out here. Like I said, there is lots of room for improvement, but it does work for me.
What are some alternatives?
asdf - Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more
use-package - A use-package declaration for simplifying your .emacs
river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
doom-emacs - An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker [Moved to: https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs]
dotfiles - And I say hey, what's going on?
melpa - Recipes and build machinery for the biggest Emacs package repo
i3-alternating-layout - Scripts to open new windows in i3wm using alternating layouts (splith/splitv) for each new window
.emacs.d - Centaur Emacs - A Fancy and Fast Emacs Configuration
cups - OpenPrinting CUPS Sources
prelude - Prelude is an enhanced Emacs 25.1+ distribution that should make your experience with Emacs both more pleasant and more powerful.
nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS
vim-orgmode - Text outlining and task management for Vim based on Emacs' Org-Mode