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Regarding the example hardwareconfiguration.nix file: why would anyone want to mount a filesystem on a user's home directory as world writable? Maybe it shows m

by acka 3y ago

Regarding the example hardwareconfiguration.nix file: why would anyone want to mount a filesystem on a user's home directory as world writable? Maybe it shows my age, I know that most people don't run multi-user systems anymore (I do though). Even so, I would still be quite worried about some runaway process, perhaps running as user nobody for a reason, messing with my stuff.

n42 3y ago
I don't think this is common or acceptable; I think it is just a bad user contribution
winternewt 3y ago
I installed NixOS for the first time a couple of weeks ago. My biggest annoyance has been that most documentation and wiki contributions seem to assume that you're running as a single-user system where it's OK to sudo as root every time you want to change some user settings. For example, I have still not been able to run Sway as a window manager because I can't find how to set it up properly using Home Manager (doing the equivalent with an .xsession and i3 was no problem). The wiki article about it (https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Sway https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Sway) has a lot of configuration at the system level configuration.nix, but most of that is missing from the ostensibly equivalent Home Manager config. It seems like a design error that the Home Manager configuration options do not map 1:1 to the NixOS configuration options for users, and I'm guessing that error is caused by a lack of interest in properly configured multi-user systems.
- e3bc54b2 3y ago
  For better or worse, home-manager is developed outside nixpkgs, where rest of NixOS lies. While I cannot speak to the reasons behind the schism, home-manager is better thought of as independent project that builds off of abstractions in nixpkgs, without taking into account what NixOS does.
- drakerossman 3y ago
  You may want to read my blog post [1] on that one. It explains exactly how to install Sway with Home Manager. And no, it is not a design error to have Home Manager separated from nixpkgs, and unlike a child reply suggests, there's no "schism", and the reasons for separation are rather prosaic, as explained in another blog post of mine [2]. [1] https://drakerossman.com/blog/wayland-on-nixos-confusion-conquest-triumph https://drakerossman.com/blog/wayland-on-nixos-confusion-con... [2] https://drakerossman.com/blog/how-to-add-home-manager-to-nixos https://drakerossman.com/blog/how-to-add-home-manager-to-nix...
  - winternewt 3y ago
    Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately they didn't help in my situation. I'm trying to start Sway from a graphical display manager and all I get after logging in is an empty text-mode console screen.

by acka 3y ago

n42 3y ago

I don't think this is common or acceptable; I think it is just a bad user contribution

winternewt 3y ago

I installed NixOS for the first time a couple of weeks ago. My biggest annoyance has been that most documentation and wiki contributions seem to assume that you're running as a single-user system where it's OK to sudo as root every time you want to change some user settings. For example, I have still not been able to run Sway as a window manager because I can't find how to set it up properly using Home Manager (doing the equivalent with an .xsession and i3 was no problem). The wiki article about it (https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Sway https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Sway) has a lot of configuration at the system level configuration.nix, but most of that is missing from the ostensibly equivalent Home Manager config. It seems like a design error that the Home Manager configuration options do not map 1:1 to the NixOS configuration options for users, and I'm guessing that error is caused by a lack of interest in properly configured multi-user systems.

e3bc54b2 3y ago
For better or worse, home-manager is developed outside nixpkgs, where rest of NixOS lies. While I cannot speak to the reasons behind the schism, home-manager is better thought of as independent project that builds off of abstractions in nixpkgs, without taking into account what NixOS does.
drakerossman 3y ago
You may want to read my blog post [1] on that one. It explains exactly how to install Sway with Home Manager. And no, it is not a design error to have Home Manager separated from nixpkgs, and unlike a child reply suggests, there's no "schism", and the reasons for separation are rather prosaic, as explained in another blog post of mine [2]. [1] https://drakerossman.com/blog/wayland-on-nixos-confusion-conquest-triumph https://drakerossman.com/blog/wayland-on-nixos-confusion-con... [2] https://drakerossman.com/blog/how-to-add-home-manager-to-nixos https://drakerossman.com/blog/how-to-add-home-manager-to-nix...
- winternewt 3y ago
  Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately they didn't help in my situation. I'm trying to start Sway from a graphical display manager and all I get after logging in is an empty text-mode console screen.