Full NixOS Guide: Everything You Need to Know in One Place! 

🚀 My Practical Neovim Course (private community included): ampersand.onlinecoursehost.com/courses/neovim ⚙ My NixOS config: github.com/Andrey0189/nixos-config 📝 PhD thesis: edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf

You and Vimjoyer are probably the future of NixOS actually having good tutorials and documentation.

My brother in christ - this is EASILY the best intro to Nix I've ever found! Thank you so much for putting this together. You covered so much ground here, from clearly explaining the benefits of Nix, to the basics of the Nix language (which I've never seen any other Nix video go over), to productively using NixOS. I mean this is seriously just awesome man! Thank you so much for putting this together!

anime waifu at the side of a nix tutorial sign me up

Always a surprise finding Creo enjoyers randomly on the internet

Guides that combine Theory + Practical are a bless for open sources. Great Job and thanks for sharing

Great presentation. Kudos also for wayland vs X11 & hyprland.

This is one of the most beginner friendly explanation on Nix i have seen so far. I can't thank You enough. Awesome and keep growing.

Thanks for the information-packed video! I tried out NixOS once but did not continue. I may not yet have felt the pain enough on my Arch based system to do the switch, but I am intrigued and may start soon trying it out on a spare laptop.

Looking forward to the Nix Drama video.

+1 for nixvim tutorial

This was pretty cool! I understood maybe half of what you said there but the way it was presented and explained was done very well! I am using Arch btw.

This is very exciting from the perspective of someone already comfortable with Linux and actual sysadmins. I’m even more interested to see if this declarative method can be brought to a more beginner-friendly distro, or if some enterprising people will create a distro of NixOS that’s at least what endeavourOS is to Arch. I have to get a new laptop soon anyway, I might try NixOS, though imagine I would miss the Blackarch repos pretty quick. (Unless I can find all those tools in the nix repos…)

Thank you so much for this! Finding good nix resources is so hard

О, а вот и причина пересмотреть твой видос по NixOS)

Really like the analogy at the start

In 17:42 it should be --update instead of update, great vid btw :)

this was the guide I was looking for. Thank you so much-- I've downloaded the transcript and saved it as a doc on my system so I can reference it even.

You are the one, Thanks a lot!

very informative and interesting! Thank you!

Great Video! Help me a lot. Want to see the vim video. 😂

Let's hope for more films like this. Thanks for this one :))

Good video, I''m curious as to the use-case for this type of distro. Perhaps appliances, routers and security roles?

Yes, I like to see the Nix Vim guide please.

honestly nix seems really cool but the sddm theme i use wasnt on their repo also i feel like i dont need it and i like my system being chaotic but i also like the cleanliness of the single config file and declarative approach. its rly attractive but i think for now im sticking to arch, maybe one day ill feel the urge to distro hop though btw this was the best intro to nix

Great video mate, thank you!

Tysm for this, gonna try installing NixOS tmrw hoping it goes better than Arch did -_-

After I moved my config to ~/nix, can I remove the files in /etc/nixos?

Very good presentation

Man, please create more tutorials on flakes to learn the nix language, hopefully you can focus them on customizing the prompt/shell, neovim-nixvim, and many more stuff. You really explained like a Nixgod, but for newbies like me it's difficult to follow your pace. I will watch this video several times.

9:46 practical part of distro

great video! Subbed

I would love a deeper dive into flakes. As a software dev they would be very necessary for all my random projects though after a few hours of research its hard to see how they fit into the system.

timestamps (incomplete): == Start == 0:00 Intro == Theory of Nix pkg/conf-mgmt == 0:23 History & Origins 2:20 Nix's Solutions 2:25 Isolate Every Pkg 2:57 Deterministic Nature 3:37 Functional Nature 4:10 Immutability 4:25 Atomicity 4:54 Derivs in primitive lang 6:12 Nix-Pkg: Repo & Channels 6:38 Analogy: Prog-langs & Pac-mgmt 8:20 Extending to NixOS & conf-mgmt == Using NixOS: 1. Live Boot == 09:46 Practical Part: Intro 09:58 Getting the ISO 10:17 Partitioning, Mounting, Gen-Config == Nix Language == 10:39 Nix-l: Intro 10:48 Data Types 11:10 Variables let..in, with, inherit, @ 11:29 Functions == Using NixOS: 2. Finishing Installation == 11:58 Quick Configuration 12:20 nixos-install 12:33 disko Partitioning 14:15 Installing & Finding Packages 14:55 nixos-rebuild switch 15:08 reboot bootloader menu entries 15:30 no-rb subcmd: boot, test 15:44 ... 18:32 home-manager

i need a nix vim guide but i also felt you kindda skipped or tried to compress the content to make it in short time span i would like to see this elaborated

We need an r/unixwaifus

thank you!

this is an really good video

6:08 _"log2(32)"_ where did the "32" came from? * if hex, it should be 16 * if alphanumeric, it should be 36 (10 + 26)

Thanks for drilling into this. Great metaphors to introduce pure functions and immutability. One concern that I have is at 9:30 We can see a boot selection screen that appears to be UEFI boot selection? Is it UEFI or is it GRUB. Because if, I make several OS snapshot pointers and each of these are entries into the UEFI boot menu - I worry about FlashRom wear levelling. How much punishment can a Bios Flash take before it fails and needs to be replaced on your motherboard?

If I use "unstable." (17:48) I receive an "undefined variable" error. Did I forget something? :/

Nix still feels like such a huge new thing to wrap my head around. Is there any place you can recommend to ask questions?

Can i Switch from KDE Plasma to Hyprland? How simple is this?

NixOS!!! NixOS!!! NixOS!!! NixOS!!! NixOS!!! NixOS!!!

i dont run "nixos-rebuild switch" every time. i run "nixos-rebuild test", and the switch one i run only at last while finalizing the config after allll tweakings and testing of the options.

Ich finde Nix gut

NixOS MENTIONED

Thanks for your Guide. Is it possible to use a default.nix file instead of a bundle.nix file, so you can just import the folder name. e.g. imports = [ ./modules ./plugins ]? Should be possible, but I'm not 100% sure.

thanks

Hi im new to linux and i want to (just learn) how to do a minimal install.. if possible can you make a video of that in the future?

hmm interesting I will stick with fedora 40 for now

The pacakge manager graph is slightly out of date, we are that 92000 packages :)

Question to creator if video! Can you list me advantages that nix os has over debian? But, be real i dont need a reproducaple system and i use linux to work (hardware design and embedded). I am planning to use nix at arm, is it good idea?

funny how you blur out your email at 19:50, when anyone can just clone the repository in the description, run git log, and see your email on every commit

Need more tutorial ricing...

14:12 This doesn't work, you are generating the config with nixos-generate-config ...

This is the video

This video could only get better with chapters!

That's it. I switch.

Dude have timestamp?

Thumbnail convinced me to move from Arch to Nix

14:10 _"run 2 commands"_ well, u forgot the disko related command at 13:46

U r config link is broken

4:19 ok, i get the idea regarding to binaries. But what about config files. Maybe package 1.1.0 and 1.2.0 will receive instructions from a config file and this can create an struggle here, right? Lets say config file for 1.1.0 have a property while config file for 1.2.0 have same property and once these two different are executed , they crash due to common values touching each other on the system… Im new to nixos (found it few hours ago, so i dont know if my question is dumb or not). Let me know. Nice video and thank you!

Nvidia drivers breaks argument "if it doesn't work there it won't work anywhere")))

Alright watched the video. It was okay I guess. I take things really slow though. Kinda wish there was a video series for flakes the same way there are video series to learn other programming languages. I know it sounds like "why?" like it should be too simple for that at first, but really go over every programming language edgecase. How do you install a node.js program with a flake, how do you install a golang package? I think the most basic flake tutorials only cover installing C programs right? and then it could progress from there into dream2nix or something after all those cases are covered.

I think it's almost time to divorce arch

Nice wallpaper how can I download it

Sorry, I'm gonna watch the whole video, but right now I want you to know, it would have been glorious if you talked like a VTuber the whole time lmao.

thank you for your hard work

12:38 lmao

Theme and icon name in neovim ?

Some of the description's links are not formatted correctly.

Yeah, i'm probably too lazy to bother, lol

I switched to nix because they don't follow CoCs like gnomes

Wait wait wait! Anime waifus is only for Arch Linux! And furys too! 😡😡😡😡😡😡

а де руский амперсанд

It's this kind of irrelevent weeb stuff that puts so many off Arch/Nix

I want to like your channel, but the anime girls are repulsive

nix creatures when I `pipreqs && pip install -r requirements.txt` (the project didn't support linux (I ain't learnin allat))

Nice walkthrough thanks for sharing

I learned so much from this video -- thanks my dude for taking the time to make it! Cheers from Argentina 🧉

Awesome! As a linux user, I have heard of NixOS and got interested in it since two months ago, I did install it in a virtual machine, but never really understood what's going on in it, so just put the virtual machine there. This video is so clear and makes me feel like I can play with it again!

I knew nothing of nix before this video. It looks evolutionary

Excellent intro, thank you!

Man what a great work 😅

Yep, this video is the ONE. Thank you so much! :D

Can you do a video with impermanence setup?

based

Переводил нейросеткой или у тебя реально такой чистый английский?

do you have a discord?

Doesn't the flatpack already solve this problem introduced at the beginning of the video?