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Oh, I so wish to learn it, seems quite awesome. I literally made my own scripts to do exactly this management over the years. But the learning curve seems huge,
by doliveira 4y ago
Oh, I so wish to learn it, seems quite awesome. I literally made my own scripts to do exactly this management over the years. But the learning curve seems huge, not many good resources, etc... Honestly they all sound like those posts trying to explain monads
And frankly, I barely have motivation to study more concrete stuff...
- e3bc54b2 4y agoAdmittedly, it can be worse than sitting down and reading the manual front to back, but I did it the hard (or simple) way. I used the simple template generated during nixos-install and kept adding packages I needed. Configured them manually as usual and went about my business. It works out more often than people would realize. For services, development toolchains etc just google and copy-paste from other people's config. Simply add 'ext:nix' to google query and you should be good. I'm at almost 3 years, know just enough Nix to write some custom stuff, but nowhere close to the Wizard title. Its not as bad as people make it out. Remember, your target is not to master it on day 1. Target is to get VLC to play the media file (or some equivalent for you).
- klysm 4y agoAs soon as you get something weird though, the rabbit hole is forever