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Do you know of any basic nix tutorials that skip the non-flake world? I'm not sure that they exist, but I think they could be really helpful. A lot of confusion

by flurie 4y ago

Do you know of any basic nix tutorials that skip the non-flake world? I'm not sure that they exist, but I think they could be really helpful. A lot of confusion when adopting flakes seems to come from the fact that the terrible UX of the old nix commands doesn't map cleanly to the (not perfect but visibly improved) new commands. Why learn this... nix-env -iA nixpkgs.hello ...when you can learn this instead? nix profile install nixpkgs#hello

JamesSwift 4y ago
I have no idea, I have been with nix for long enough that I hadn't sought anything like that out. I should note that flakes are still technically experimental (i.e. opt-in), and theres still some community drama around not wanting to go with flakes mainly by longtime nix users. Also note that the "modernized" `nix` CLI interface is experimental/opt-in as well vs the out-of-the-box "legacy" commands (e.g. nix-env). So yeah, its a bit of an odd time in nix land as they transition but I don't see any indication that you would be poorly served or burned by moving to both nix command and flakes now.