❄️ Why I'm Leaving NixOS After a Year? | rugu

｢ I understand the benefits of reproducibility and so on, but when I think about how much I’ve gained from that reproducibility compared to my old dotfiles setup, I realize that I did NOT see any real benefits in practice. I am just sure that configuring and making stuff run the Nix way just takes way more time than just using a regular FHS distro ｣

https://www.rugu.dev/en/blog/leaving-nixos/

#nixos #reproducibility #opensource

❄️ Why I'm Leaving NixOS After a Year? | rugu

｢ I understand the benefits of reproducibility and so on, but when I think about how much I’ve gained from that reproducibility compared to my old dotfiles setup, I realize that I did NOT see any real benefits in practice. I am just sure that configuring and making stuff run the Nix way just takes way more time than just using a regular FHS distro ｣

https://www.rugu.dev/en/blog/leaving-nixos/

#nixos #reproducibility #opensource

Well, it's official! The very first #nixbook installer is now live and completely works!

Now you can download an iso, boot to it, and install Nixbook or Nixbook Lite, reboot and you're good forever!

For those who don't know, Nixbook is basically a super easy to use #linuxmint type clone built in #nixos with automatic updates and upgrades for non technical / technical users alike!

https://github.com/mkellyxp/nixbook/

Well, it's official! The very first #nixbook installer is now live and completely works!

Now you can download an iso, boot to it, and install Nixbook or Nixbook Lite, reboot and you're good forever!

For those who don't know, Nixbook is basically a super easy to use #linuxmint type clone built in #nixos with automatic updates and upgrades for non technical / technical users alike!

https://github.com/mkellyxp/nixbook/

Has anyone successfully deployed #Bonfire using #NixOS?

PR is here, feedback and improvements are appreciated. If someone could test it on darwin or aarch64, it would be great. I don't have access to those platforms.

#nixos #retrogaming #boulderdash

PR is here, feedback and improvements are appreciated. If someone could test it on darwin or aarch64, it would be great. I don't have access to those platforms.

#nixos #retrogaming #boulderdash

I packaged one of my favourite childhood games, Boulder Dash for Nix. Do you guys think there's any interest to make it an official package?
It's called gdash, and it's a close-to-the-original remake!

#retrogaming #nixos #c64 #boulderdash

Hey #Linux peeps. What is the best wifi enabled printer that works well with Linux and #NixOS

I'm replacing this old brother printer and want some recommendations on a replacement.

Prefer laser printer

I am really looking forward to a completely #GNU free #nixos setup.

One day...!

Interesting post from tazjin, an experienced #nixos contributor, about trying #guixhttps://tazj.in/blog/trying-guix#fnref1 it didn’t particularly make me want to try guix, but it was an informative and fun read.

Interesting post from tazjin, an experienced #nixos contributor, about trying #guixhttps://tazj.in/blog/trying-guix#fnref1 it didn’t particularly make me want to try guix, but it was an informative and fun read.

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (28/2025): Automatically Focussed

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-28-2025/

#LinuxMobile #libcamera #postmarketOS #UbuntuTouch #Lomiri #SailfishOS #PineTab2 #DanctNIX #Mobian #LinuxOnMobile #NixOS

First #selfHosting baby steps: bare metal server is finally up and running.
Couldn't figure out remote unlocked encrypted root on #ZFS with #NixOS, but also I realized it would be overkill (what's the point of encrypting the Nix store?) and that I can selectively encrypt datasets, so it's whatevs.

First #selfHosting baby steps: bare metal server is finally up and running.
Couldn't figure out remote unlocked encrypted root on #ZFS with #NixOS, but also I realized it would be overkill (what's the point of encrypting the Nix store?) and that I can selectively encrypt datasets, so it's whatevs.

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (28/2025): Automatically Focussed

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-28-2025/

#LinuxMobile #libcamera #postmarketOS #UbuntuTouch #Lomiri #SailfishOS #PineTab2 #DanctNIX #Mobian #LinuxOnMobile #NixOS

Users of the NixOS module for Mastodon, I want to change the options interface to make it more similar to the official way of configuring Mastodon: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/424594

What do you think?

#NixOS#Mastodon#mastoAdmin

Great news for #NixOS and nix users wanting to run bleeding edge, unreleased versions of #QGIS As of today you can now simply run this command to run the latest version of #QGIS in git:

nix run github:qgis/QGIS#qgis

Note: When you run this command, it will take a while and your CPU will work hard since it builds everything from source.

Thanks so much to @imincik for this amazing and far reaching contribution to #QGIS !

Great news for #NixOS and nix users wanting to run bleeding edge, unreleased versions of #QGIS As of today you can now simply run this command to run the latest version of #QGIS in git:

nix run github:qgis/QGIS#qgis

Note: When you run this command, it will take a while and your CPU will work hard since it builds everything from source.

Thanks so much to @imincik for this amazing and far reaching contribution to #QGIS !

Hey, there's a #Guix#London #meetup planned for Tuesday next week:

https://www.meetup.com/guix-social/events/308234219/

Time: Tuesday 8th July at 6pm
Location: 20 Farringdon St, EC4A 4AB

Being troubled by some unmatched parenthesis? Come speak to us!

In love with #Nix / #NixOS and curious to know more about Guix? Join us!

(Please register on meetup.com or DM me as your name needs to be passed to the building reception so they can let you in.)