I’m currently running Arch and it’s great, but I’m noticing I’m not staying on the ball in regards to updates. I’ve been reading a bit about Nix and NixOS and thinking of trying it as my daily driver. I’ve got a Lenovo x1 xtreme laptop, I don’t do much gaming (except OSRS), use firefox, jetbrains stuff, bitwarden, remmina, obsidian, and docker.

Is anyone running NixOS as their daily? How are you liking it and are there any pitfalls / stuff you wish you knew before?

  • flashgnash
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    10 months ago

    I’ve heard of the advantages of using them but still not entirely sure what they’re actually used for? What situation would call for using a flake?

    • I use NixOS btw @lemmy.world
      2·
      10 months ago

      For distributing software (nixpkgs is a flake and many projects have flakes), replacing channels (again, nixpkgs is a flake) or managing configs (check out my repo)

      • flashgnash
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        10 months ago

        So the only use of flakes is for packaging software? Haven’t started packaging software for NixOS yet only managing my PC

        • iopq@lemmy.ml
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          10 months ago

          No, it’s also for your system to use locked versions of deps, so if you git clone you get a flakes.lock as well with all the versions. When you install from a git repo you get the same system again

          • flashgnash
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            10 months ago

            So it’s a way to ensure you always get the exact same version of dependencies?

            • iopq@lemmy.ml
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              10 months ago

              Yes, you get the same version of deps and the actual software too. For example, wine breaks my game from time to time, but if I got clone my setup I will get the exact version of wine that I use that works, not the latest unstable version