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ghostty
👻 Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.
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spack
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
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not-os
An operating system generator, based on NixOS, that, given a config, outputs a small (47 MB), read-only squashfs for a runit-based operating system, with support for iPXE and signed boot.
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archbox
Easy to use Arch Linux chroot environment with some functionalities to integrate it with your existing Linux installation. Mirror of https://momodev.lemniskett.moe/lemniskett/archbox
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Ghostty 1.0
nixGL is also likely required on non-NixOS Linux distros.
https://github.com/nix-community/nixGL
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Ask HN: Are there wrapper/runner programs that encrypt writes and decrypt reads?
How can a program accomplish this? by using/doing something like virtualization? emulation? syscall/API translation? e.g. like WINE?
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Nix without NixOS, how doable is this and how much do I miss?
Essentially, running stuff that needs GL graphics is a bit funky... There's a workaround called nixGL though.
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Calibre Replacement Considerations
I think installing Calibre is a good use case for installing Nix (www.nixos.org).
Unfortunately, you might also need https://github.com/guibou/nixGL to run graphical apps under Nix. It's a shell script to use the correct OpenGL library.
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Nix-env apps on Debian unable to be executed via GUI KDE.
Try the NixGL wrapper.
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Issue: with python-matplotlib
Are you running the Nix package manager on not-NixOS? If so I recall needing NixGL for OpenGL integration.
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How do I update packages when using home-manager?
$ nix-channel --list home-manager https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/release-22.05.tar.gz nixgl https://github.com/guibou/nixGL/archive/main.tar.gz nixos https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-unstable
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functional
Needs a separate program to run GUI applications on non-NixOS systems
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Imagine your entire purpose being made completely obsolete by a single compiler option
IMO the proper solution to this is Nix/Guix, since they have the best of both worlds (sharing libraries where possible, but allowing different versions where needed). Shame that libGL is a mess and as such is difficult to get right in this way, and as such you need hacks like https://github.com/guibou/nixGL for most GUI stuff. That said, people are working on improving the situation.
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nix-community/nixGL is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of nixGL is Nix.
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