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NixOS is a good server OS, except when it isn't
There is https://search.nixos.org/ and on the command line you can play around with:
$ nix repl
nix-repl> :l
nix-repl> {press tab for auto-complete}
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Switching from Arch to NixOS
The greatest feature of NixOS (in my opinion) is the ability to run what are called "ephemeral shells" -- that is, to be able to download and run software in an isolated environment without initially installing it, without it changing or damaging the main environment in any way.
This is accomplished via the shell command:
'nix-shell -p '"
i.e.,
$ nix-shell -p vim
Where can be found from over 100,000 packages here:
https://search.nixos.org/
Functionally, the above is the equivalent of what Google Play Store, Apple App Store or Microsoft Store or other Linux package managers are to their respective platforms.
To install software permanently, edit /etc/nixos/configuration.nix to include it (typically under environment.systemPackages), and follow up with:
$ sudo nixos-rebuild switch
It is also not too difficult to undo those changes should that be wished, but that's beyond the scope of a simple HN post!
Anyway, in my opinion, NixOS is probably the most Software Developer friendly evolution of Unix since Linux itself!
Well worth a try for technical people -- but there is a learning curve when trying to do very specific esoteric things with it... but that's sort of the case with anything technological...
That being said, there is a lot more documentation about NixOS on the web these days then there was in the early days...
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Why is the documentation... nowhere to be found?!
For me, https://search.nixos.org/ is a better aid than the wiki. Often the right keyword in the NixOS packages or modules search will lead me right to the obvious and simple answer that I couldn't find elsewhere.
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Nix packages security, safety, and privacy
Does https://search.nixos.org/ pull from nixpkgs, the Nix User Repository, or both?
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What is the difference between:
Just go to search.nixos.org, open the option you would like to see more of, and click on the link behind "Declared in".
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Where to find SAR in the package manager?
I've done a nix-env query, and checked in https://search.nixos.org but can't seem to find any SAR package, nor any google search that gave any hints to see if it might be part of another system utility package...
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My First Impressions of Nix
If you want to install a package, search for it at https://search.nixos.org
The gnome system monitor is gnome.gnome-system-monitor for example https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=23.05&show=gnome.g...
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Super Colliding Nix Stores: Nix Flakes for Millions of Developers
search.nixos.org also includes flakes that people PR into the index via GitHub at https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-search/issues
ps: $ nix search exists via experimental flags https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/command-ref/new-cli/nix3...
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Thinking about to switch from Fedora Sliverblue to NixOS with following use case…
Idk about ec_sys, I couldn't find it on search.nixos.org, but since it's a kernel module it might just come with the kernel idk.
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NixOS/nixos-search is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of nixos-search is Elm.
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