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I find nix incredible but the thing that I struggle with is trying to figure out how to do things on nixpkgs, and home manager in particular while not using nix
by jahsome 3y ago
I find nix incredible but the thing that I struggle with is trying to figure out how to do things on nixpkgs, and home manager in particular while not using nixos.
This is a critical use case for the apprehensive crowd like me who is averse to distro hopping, let alone willing to take on the paradigm shift of Linux-to-nixos.
The documentation for either is all but non-existent and the pages I can find are glorified source or man pages. Given how scalable nix, in the right use case, can make things, that's just not the modern experience it should or could be.
- rch 3y agoNixpkgs is also critical for non-apprehensive people who nonetheless need to use MacOS and other distros on a daily basis.
- jahsome 3y agoGreat point. My $dayjob use case is the same, but probably worse (windows + wsl).
- taffit 3y agoI completely agree. I'm also trying to wrap my head around Nix on a non-NixOS system. My requirements are to just manage my dotfiles (successful with home-manager) and configuring my system/installing certain packages, so everyone on the host can e. g. start a docker container with Docker installed by Nix. Ideally all with flakes. I suppose, I can't have the second part without NixOS, though ...