ixnay

Ixnay is a Nix shell wrapper that I'm writing as I learn about Nix and how to do various operations. (by pmarreck)

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  • Our Audit of Homebrew
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jul 2024
    I ditched `brew` for `nix` a while back and while the TUI could be more end-user-friendly (to the point that I wrote a wrapper called "ixnay" just so I could do "ixnay install " as easily as with brew, https://github.com/pmarreck/ixnay), the overall guarantees make it worth it.
  • Timeshift: System Restore Tool for Linux
    16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Jul 2024
    > but from my perspective the NixOS model is so obviously the "correct" way of doing an OS that it really annoys me that it's not the standard for every operating system

    - Literally every person who's read the Nix paper and drank the kool-aid thinks this lol.

    I STILL don't completely understand every element of my nix config but it's still quite usable. Adding software requires adding it to the large-ish config file, largely because I created overlay namespaces of "master.programname", "unstable.programname" and "stable.programname" (with the default being "unstable" in my case) but those would all ideally be moved out into 2 text files, 1 for system level (maybe called system_packages.txt) and one for a named user (perhaps called _packages.txt) and if those could be imported somehow into the configuration.nix, I think that would make things a bit easier for end-users, at least initially.

    The commandline UI (even the newer `nix` one) could still use an overhaul IMHO. The original CL utils were CLEARLY aimed directly at Nix developers, and not so much at end-users...

    I've been working on my own wrapper to encapsulate the most common use-cases I need the underlying TUI for https://github.com/pmarreck/ixnay < and that's it so far.

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