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That's kind of the approach I took in this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRGI9KQ3_HP_OFRG6R-p4iFgMSK1t5BHs https://www.youtube.com/playlist?l

by burke 6y ago

That's kind of the approach I took in this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRGI9KQ3_HP_OFRG6R-p4iFgMSK1t5BHs https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRGI9KQ3_HP_OFRG6R-p4... However, there is really an important and subtle set of concepts to grasp in order to actually understand Nix, and not just mess around with a package manager tool incidentally built with it. It's fine to not understand them, but they are what this article tries to explain.

bradly 6y ago
FWIW... I read this article as someone who doesn't know what Nix is. Like no idea at all besides the name sounding familiar. After reading the first few paragraphs I feel I'm not the target audience for the article, which it totally fine, but based on the title of the post, I assumed I was.
- burke 6y ago
  Yeah, it was a last-minute title change that I now regret.
  - bradly 6y ago
    Yeah, that's tough :( On the bright side... sounds like the community (or at least me) would really be into another article as a primer.
LockAndLol 6y ago
That's a nice playlist. Thank you. I'll try running those commands in a nix docker to follow along. Does this playlist exist by any chance on peertube?