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You know, not to promote NixOS too much but the reproducibility of it makes this specific OS especially easy to support. There's already a community driven hard
by lillecarl 4y ago
You know, not to promote NixOS too much but the reproducibility of it makes this specific OS especially easy to support. There's already a community driven hardware support module to use [1]. If you look at it it doesn't hold a lot of things though, since NixOS is quite bleeding edge (Wi-Fi already supported) and you Framework is otherwise quite Linux friendly (Please make a 1080p-ish display tho, until Wayland is 4 real).
LPT: NixOS installs by themselves aren't good for much, use NixOS-hardware and look into power configurations if you have specific requirements.
1: https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/blob/master/framework/default.nix https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/blob/master/framewor...
- doyougnu 4y agoYea and the best part was that installing NixOS was dead easy. I followed Graham Christensen's instructions[1] and had nix create a personalized image with the latest linux kernel and some other stuff. Then I just flashed and booted from that image after partitioning. Honestly it was dead simple and its so hard to go back to the ad-hoc system config style a la Arch linux and other distros. I'm probably a lost cause now because I think I'm going to convert my entire raspberry pi cluster to NixOS from ubuntu. [1]: https://grahamc.com/blog/nixos-on-framework https://grahamc.com/blog/nixos-on-framework
- lillecarl 4y agoI'm daily driving NixOS both at home and work, but to be honest I don't really use the Nix features all that much, I just have a system that's predictable. Every now and then I spin up an OS container w/ Ubuntu or the likes, forward X if I'm doing something that isn't supported in NixOS yet.