I Do Not Have Time For Linux! (NixOS Dependency Management) 

This is just a new fork of luke smith.

So we have Luke Smith, black Luke Smith (Mental Outlaw), and now there is ginger Luke Smith. This is getting out of hand.

When did luke smith move to (or visit) china?

"I can select to be unstable" - My Ex

If you have a working system and you understand it then that's good enough. NixOS is geared for users who need deal with disparate environments. Most users have one distribution that they deal with and know. The moment NixOS clicks is when you need repeatable portable build environments. I am a build engineer and NixOS is brilliant. I am enamored and I am switching all my machines to this. I was an Arch user before but having ONE declared configured system is the dream. I can pour all my efforts into my laptop and then have it on my desktop. If things go wrong I can rollback. It's the beautiful combination of stability and bleeding edge at the cost of disk space. I get the hype

Absolutely fantastic video! Loved the way you formatted it

I got into trouble on NixOS recently because my Nvidia drivers were mismatched from the ones Hyprland expected after I upgraded from 23.11 to 24.05 (version 550 instead of 555). The solution was to use flakes (technically optional, but it helped out with version management) and to enable the unstable and stable repos at the same time (I think I added the unstable pkgs as an overlay, so I simply put "unstable." instead of just "" as the entry in my pkgs list). With this, I was able to change the kernel packages version to unstable, which automatically made both the kernel and the Nvidia driver the most recent ones which worked well. This was surprisingly easy, but poorly documented, which is how I would categorise most of my experience with NixOS.

we got forked luke smith visiting china before gta vi

Wow, great content! You've just gained a new follower. Keep up the good work! You're a great guy and your content is really likeable 🚀

Another great video! Looking forward to your channel growing.

Can I withstand so much freedom? That’s the question.

Great content. Love your approach to Linux. Keep rocking

The only thing that prevents me switching to NixOS is that I use pcloud for my storage solution. Mandatory packages for my need on NixOS seems to be broken. NixOS still installed on my VM but can't going further without my cloud storage solution. I think NixOS as a great future but for now, I will continue my journey with Arch and BTRFS. The humidity is very high as well here in Montreal. Probably not as much as your China location . Best, Jean🥵

Guys, either I'm crazy or this is the same instance of Luke Smith. The exact same voice and the way he talks. The matrix is real!

NixOS is a Linux distro, you can use the Nix package manager on many Linux distros and several platforms including macOS and WSL, but it’s only going to be as good as the channels don’t expect legacy software to be kept storage costs for the project can astronomical. If fact they have been struggling already.

do more nixos please ! thank you for the video. love to see how its configured.

can u make video aboit why so many maintainers of nix os had to leave project?

Mix just acknowledges that in such complex, interconnected systems changing the from one version to another of the “same thing” is NOT the same thing. The hash is different. It’s not the same. Nix stops pretending that it is.

Great video! Though what do you think about GUIX?

We, as a community, forked Luke Smith before he got archieved

thanks for the content ginger version of Luke Smith

he fell for the dependency hell meme. - arch btw

NixOS goated

I literally switched from Arch to NixOS a couple hours ago!

I would love a demo of your setup. Your window manager,terminal,etc I'm new to Linux and have no idea what I'm looking at

A good route to increase kernel and init agnosticism in NixOS would be more integration in both directions with guix What if they could use each other package definitions or write your configuration in nix and scheme at the same time

More than 2 years using Arch Linux and no major issues at all I would like to check nixos, but I would say that Arch still the prime Linux distro. Just my thoughts :) and yeah I think we have to many smiths agents lol

Running NixOs and Arch in parallel until I got everything running how I need it. Then will make the switch

did i just found the luke smith successor

if nix and gentoo had a child it would be cool definitely sth i would use can break ur system and go back + stuff is optimised for ur cpu

I never had problems with upgrading my packages on Arch Linux

I was using NixOS for a while. But I found I needed something that was more FHS compliant, and the compatibility layers wouldn't do for me. Now I'm using Void Linux but I do have nix installed in it.

Thank you, based ginger Luke Smith

It kind of reminds of how brew manages packages.

Can this OS mess up with env variables like CARGO_HOME, JAVA_HOME, XDG_CACHE_DIR or can i use them easily

Welcome to the cave!

Great content! which WM do you use?

What wallpaper are you using at the 9:25 mark?

I prefeer the root image/partition route like vanillaos etc... relying on symlinks seems too problematic. It's an old solution to containerization, there are new and better ways to do this. The new vanilla OS is amazing, but still in beta. Allows all the advantages of inmutable systems and personalization but using OCI image layers instead of links. A much cleaner and compatible way.

The thing that's preventing me from going to nix is that, i just dont have the space. I'm not ready to throw away my old mint system. Currently I'm on arch, on a smaller SSD, having a lot of folders symlinked to my old home (because I'm afraid of newer config files messing up old ones if i have to boot into mint again.)

bought a mac after using nixos for 6 months lmao, it is the shttest os in my whole life

correction 100k+ packages in nixpkgs

NixOS is missing a lot of the packages that i use from the AUR.... no it is not bigger then the Arch/AUR

Nix is also crazily ran. The blokes behind it are real pieces of nasty.

No time for Linux, but I wonder how much time learning and tweaking and updating all those nix configs takes. Getting all the freshest precious things on an Arch-based distro takes a single command and a couple of minutes time. How does updating NixOS look like?

03:26 - no time to acquire basic design skills neither... I bet you spend more time on your beard and hair than I do on fixing pacman issues.

Containers are not virtualized :/

I don't have time for NixOS pushing a woke agenda

I'm on Gentoo and I would say as far as dependency resolution, it works in a somewhat similar manner (using slotting), which, coupled with the fact that the gorillion packages that nixos boasts can be, shall we say, not of the best quality, among other, mostly development related issues, makes it not particularly worth it, considering I can simply spin up distrobox with nearly the same amount of difficulty (or probably even use nix or guix on gentoo, which I haven't tried), without sacrificing the overall stability of my system. You'd be right in saying Gentoo isn't quite a hands off experience, but neither is anything else when it comes to development. And I'd rather deal with Gentoo's issues, from my experience.