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How would you run Atom on a Linux desktop without X11? Honest question; I didn't think Wayland/Weston were far enough along yet...
by frio 10y ago
How would you run Atom on a Linux desktop without X11? Honest question; I didn't think Wayland/Weston were far enough along yet...
- vetinari 10y agoHe probably already had X11 installed and Nix was downloading duplicate libs.
- davexunit 10y agoThis is a feature. Nix is completely isolated from the host system. It manages its own dependency tree. Using libs and other things from the host system would be both brittle and nondeterministic, negating the reason why Nix is so novel in the first place.
- aeosynth 10y ago... except on OSX. Really I just wanted something to take the place of an Arch Linux AUR helper, the way Nix replaces Homebrew.
- frio 10y agoAh, I can understand the concern on OSX (or other Linux distros). Earlier in the chain, you wrote "Linux desktop" -- which, to me, implied using NixOS :).
- cm3 10y agoWayland and Weston work and there's also non-Weston compositors (window managers) like sway, kwin, gnome and more that actually work decently enough with Xwayland integration for running legacy (X11) apps.