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Huh, cool! I’d love to run Illustrator/Photoshop on my NixOS box. I presume you use looking-glass-client from nixpkgs. Any other parts of the config you can sha

• jchw 6y ago
  Not that I can recall! Yeah, I was using that one. In fact, when I wanted to upgrade, I actually submitted PRs to Nixpkgs for it. In the meantime, though, you can of course just use overlays or overrides to get a more up to date looking-glass-client in your local setup. Now, that does actually bring up at least one nice bit of configuration, which is how to configure your overlays to be consistent system-wide. It's covered on the wiki. I'll be honest, I still find overlays a little bit confusing, but I eventually got this setup working. It has a lot of advantages over other methods, my favorite of which is that all of my overlay stuff is consistent across the machine and stored in my Git-versioned NixOS configuration. You might already have this, but it's worth noting. https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Overlays#Using_nixpkgs.overlays_from_configuration.nix_as_.3Cnixpkgs-overlays.3E_in_your_NIX_PATH https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Overlays#Using_nixpkgs.overlays_from... Other than that and setting up the libvirt box, there wasn't really much else to it. I had it done in an hour or two. Pretty sure the only other NixOS configuration I had was setting my user to be in the `libvirtd` group.