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nixpkgs
Discontinued 🧔 personal nix config #nixos [GET https://api.github.com/repos/moul/nixpkgs: 404 - Not Found // See: https://docs.github.com/rest/repos/repos#get-a-repository] (by moul)
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I like to install NixOS (declaratively)
I've been trying to get a reasonable Linux-based audio setup on my desktop. Linux audio is a confusing disaster and I'd basically given up on Ubuntu, having run through so many debugging steps I had no idea how my system even got to this state.
I figured what the hell, let's try NixOS and see if I can set it up declaratively. At least that way if it fails, I have documentation about what exactly is failing.
I discovered the audio packages I needed easily enough. But things weren't great, there was occasional noticeable lag on the mic and midi devices. Ok, let's try to compile a realtime linux kernel... Wait there's an entire project dedicated to Nix audio setup! (https://github.com/musnix/musnix) After a few minutes integrating with my config, and about an hour to compile the kernel. Rebooted and bam. It's almost like working with analog in terms of perceivable lag.
I know this says more about Musnix than Nix, but I think it highlights the advantages of configuring your system with a real programming language. All the "audio stuff" was able to fit behind a well-designed abstraction barrier.
Going back to a "do this, now do this" tutorial feels like the dark ages. The only thing keeping me from going all-in on Nix is that it's package management strategy starts bleeding into your software project's dependency management. This is a huge problem IMO, I can't run C/C++ or Python projects the "old way" and no one is willing to upend their build system and lock it into nix. Some languages work great and allow a clean barrier between system<>app. I use Clojure, Rust, Gleam, Go, Lua on nix without any issues, it does seem to be the C/C++ ecosystem and dynamic linked shared libraries that are the problem.
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Tvix – A New Implementation of Nix
- Ease of setting up a real-time audio: https://github.com/musnix/musnix
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How do I actually update home-manager?
$ sudo nix-channel --list home-manager https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/release-23.11.tar.gz musnix https://github.com/musnix/musnix/archive/master.tar.gz nixos https://channels.nixos.org/nixos-23.11
- My First Impressions of Nix
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NixOS for Audio Engineering / Content Creation
You might want to check out Musnix, which is a NixOS configuration for audio engineering.
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Real-time Ubuntu is now generally available
NixOS, currently with musnix enabled, but obviously not with their realtime kernel option.
- Is there any Linux distro dedicated to music performance around?
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The most suitable distro for audio production
In NixOS you can simply enable stuff like realtime kernel configs with a project like musnix https://github.com/musnix/musnix
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musnix/musnix is an open source project licensed under BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of musnix is Nix.
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