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The big problem that Nix/NixOS has is failure to integrate well with graphics libraries (OpenGL drivers, etc). Does Guix solve this problem?
by georgewsinger 8y ago
The big problem that Nix/NixOS has is failure to integrate well with graphics libraries (OpenGL drivers, etc).
Does Guix solve this problem?
- Filligree 8y agoI've never had trouble with graphics on NixOS. What integration failures do you see?
- danieldk 8y agoI have been using NixOS for a week now. I am curious, could you give more details? I haven't tried any games, but Plasma is accelerated.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y agoProbably referring to the proprietary drivers, not the open ones that I assume were included in the distro.
- danieldk 8y agoBut the proprietary drivers are too, just add services.xserver.videoDrivers = [ "nvidia" ]; or services.xserver.videoDrivers = [ "ati_unfree" ]; to the system configuration and do a sudo nixos-build switch to switch into the new system with NVIDIA drivers. (NixOS is pretty fantastic in this respect, in the installation live environment I just added boot.supportedFilesystems = [ "zfs" ]; to the configuration and switched to the new configuration. I could then do a root on ZFS install without any extra effort.) https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/#idm140737316292128 https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/#idm140737316292128