I game on NixOS all the time. Best distrito for me. Never break's unless I am actively editing my config, and then it's easy to revert. Stable, declarative greatness.
According to the NixOS Nvidia docs, lspci or lshw both output the bus id in hex and it needs to be converted to decimal. May be worth clarifying for folks that don't have values equal in hex and decimal
I'd love to see another video about setting this up through Flatpak. I'm not a Flatpak zealot, but I use it for games because Steam (and others) are separate marketplaces not checked by Nix contributors, and there are *so many* games that I'm sure some malicious code slips through their validation. Flatpak isolation isn't perfect but it can help with that. Flatpak is easy to install on NixOS, and Steam, Lutris, Heroic, etc. are easy to install through Flatpak, but the details are different than explained in this video. You can still install Gamemode and other tools through NixOS, and Gamemode knows how to track Flatpak-run Steam games.
What I'd actually be interested in is managing Flatpak declaratively with Nix. nixpkgs relies on Nix users to update apps and Flatpak relies on their developers, so it should be a great way to have the latest and greatest.
Managing flatpak with nix is possible, but none of the current solutions actually install stuff into the nix store. I'll probably make a video about it later
@@vimjoyer Thanks. I'm less concerned about managing Flatpak with nix than I am about getting the security benefits for otherwise unprotected installs like Steam games. I don't think it matters if it's in the nix store; the Steam-installed games won't be. It's nice if the extra tools (gamemode, etc.) are managed by NixOS, but the key part is isolating the games. It would be helpful to have a video showing how the Flatpak parts (Steam, Lutris, Heroic) can interact with the NixOS-installed parts (everything else, ideally).
I kind of get your security concern, but as far as I know. IIRC Anything executable from the Steam store is containerised when using proton. If it runs on bare linux then yeah sure, but if you just use proton on all your stuff the binaries are stuck in a container similar to flatpak.
I would love to see some long format videos from you. Especially around the more complex implementations with home manager and flakes, so we really have the time to cover the more complex concepts
Yep, it works about as well as any other distro I've gamed on. I've run BG3 and Elden Ring so far, little bit of driver trouble at one point but all good now. At least I know my config file will make it easier next time.
have you considered making a psa video about the official nixos wiki? it seems like you have a fair share of nixos newbie traffic so i think it would help get the new wiki to appear over the old one in search results
do you think its possible for you to make a video on installing kernel modules declaratively, ive been struggling with it for a while now. Thanks being the best for anything nixos related
I’ve been so interested in getting into NixOS, but steamVR without async reprojection is a dealbreaker, so I’ll stick to arch for the foreseeable future.
I want to ask a question regarding what you said starting 5:19, "...to access those capabilities gamemode and gamescope require specific permissions so adding them to the system packages alone will not suffice" My question is why is adding them to the system packages is not sufficient?
You can check what these options do in nixpkgs repo. Just search for them on the search website, and you'll see how these options modify your system for these programs to work properly. gamemode is a daemon, so it's option actually creates and enables a service for example.
Hey, I watched a good amount of your videos preparing to make my Ultimate NixOS setup and wanted to point an error out in your video. Bottles should not be used from any Package Manager but Flatpak. It's the only one the Dev actually fully supports. When you run this as a package from your Package Manager you lose the containerization that the Flatpak offers. You also may potentially run into issues the Flatpak solves. This is also true for OBS: The only officially supported app is the Flatpak. I think if you were to do a follow up to this add in information about how to setup Flatpaks and demonstrate with OBS or Bottles and state "This is the only officially supported version of this application".
Not an error, it's your choice how you want to run your software. Official support is good, and I probably should have mentioned that, but I'm not going to install a separate package manager for one program.
Also Thank yo without you would have never have switched to this amazing distro, ive been distro hopping ever since i started to learn linux, thnk im staying with this one, already got everything set up with hyprland, made my own rice, set up my flake so i can copy it all on to one of my laptops which i made into a Pentesting machine, all the tools seem to work flawlessly. the fact that i can just restart and go into a previous state is amazing as well, really helps when i fuck something up.
Привіт всім! Хочу сказати, що Vimjoyer легенда. Вона навіть не уявляє наскільки вона легенда і наскільки вона гарна, і взагалі ви повинні цінувати Vimjoyer, бо таких як вона не було і не буде. Я б міг багато чого ще написати, але я хочу щоб вона вже зараз про це знала.
Any chance to see a walkthrough of your own personal nix config? Or even a github link? I'm starting out my nix journey, and seeing some configs accompanied by content that explains what each feature does or why it's there would be fantastic
I still haven’t tried NixOS (though there’s a fresh VM waiting to have it installed so I can play with it). At 2:30 something hit me: I could just…do both. Right? Comment-out sync or offload parts as needed in my config, then rebuild. Except I know nothing weird should be happening with my system’s state because it’s declarative (and also less prone to my own errors). I do wonder if System76’s tools/drivers set this up by default. When I was looking at their page on how to configure for other distros, and NixOS was a one-liner…really got me curious. Edit: I…see. NixOS has a built-in way to do what I was thinking but with significantly less janky fiddling. That really does drive home how it’s just built different…I love it.
@@vimjoyerI understand this but as a relative newcomer to the Linux scene who adores the concept of NixOS its quite concerning and off-putting when I hear stuff like the creator getting booted from the project and large contributors getting banned/shadow banned
I've noticed that when I switch to nixos-unstable, it doesn't seem to detect my RX 6800XT and just lists it as an amd device. I'll try that xserver option and see if that fixes it. Also +1 for gamescope, it helped when Satisfactory wasn't grabbing the cursor.
I didn't think it would be this easy to configure nvidia drivers and set up Steam. Thank you! About gamemoderun, mangohud and gamescope, is it possible to use all 3 of them, and how would we do that? Just "gamemoderun mangohud gamescope %command%" on steam?
@@vimjoyer I don't think I'll have time to try it today, but when I do, I'll let you know. I just wish we could set up these commands in nix, for all the games
whenever i try to add my nvidia gpu to my configuration.nix i lose i lose graphical interface and asked to login in TTY. thank god there is a thing called rollbacks. But i give up. my old gpu and limited time does not allow me to run games on linux.
I would be willing to bet this does indeed work well, but idk where exactly to go to find these configs to edit as I’ve not used Linux that much before. I’ve used it, but not that much.
I ended up using Steam through flatpak and I got better results than with the `programs` entry - though it's been a while since I tried the nix config way. Might you know of any major differences between those? Or, whatever works - works. And move on :D
some things just straight up don't work with the flatpak last time I checked. Eg. you can't connect controllers due to problems with the permissions. Generally when folks say "I'm having XYZ weird problem with Steam on Linux" the first question asked is "Are you using the flatpak version?" it mostly works but has a variety of non-obvious bugs and limitations.
Suspect the answer to be no. But is it possible to use the integrated AMD GPU on 7950X3D with a discrete Nividia RTX-4090 in a desktop PC? i.e. connect DisplayPort to motherboard AMD GPU as primary GPU and enable Nvidia GPU for steam games / Blender 3D I suspect the problem to be passing through the AMD GPU's DisplayPort where some magic is utilized on laptop motherboards. It is difficult to find any references online and some have claimed it is possible (perhaps with caveats like maybe only integrated Intel)
Vimjoyer, you've got to make a video on how to make NixOS look like windows 7, that would be goated while having this setup for gaming. With aerothemeplasma
Спасибо вам Юрий за вашу работу ,всегда с нетерпением жду новые видео от вас .Не могли бы вы рассказать в следующем как переключаться с wayland на xorg ,не тянет мой ноут wayland на гноме,и как оказалось переключиться не так уж и просто.Спасибо ))
There seems to be a page about it on the unofficial NixOS wiki, but there's not much information on it. Perhaps you could look for for similar machines on the NixOS-hardware page.
@@_Firebert Its cool, i just needed to point our the directory it was to go in with the protonup command instead of setting into in my config. seemed to have sorted things :)
Linux is for lowend gamer, if you want quality like all new Features from nvidia, only windows is the way. Nvidia, HDR, VRR, RTX HDR, DLSS Rayreconstruction, Framegeneratin, GPU undervolting or OC, all together you dont get it at once in linux. Even in 2030 you wont get. The communtity is big on linux but they dont put the efford together. Also to much distros, then not equal kernel version, moddified kernels.... Wayland, x11 or much more, whats the right to choose. Noway, stay away as a gamer from linux if you want quality gaming.
1. You can get DLSS and VRR on Linux. 2. Separate people don't owe you anything, and they won't magically "put the effort together". 3. This video is not for windows users, it's for those who want to game on NixOS. I'm not comparing any distro to windows, because I'd rather stop gaming then use windows.
Yeah this is pretty outdated, in years past gaming always kept me going back to Windows, but today I can run every game I play on Linux, even high end gfx titles like Cyberpunk w/ full ray tracing and Star Citizen with no performance drop. It just takes an extra step or two on Linux. The only gamers stuck are sweats who play games with kernel level anti-cheat, and even that will prob get support eventually as Microsoft continues to self-destruct Windows.
