I couldn't get pixelfed to work under #NixOS. That's why I'm building pxvoid now. A simple, self-hosted web gallery with #ActivityPub integration. No multi-user management, no filters, no stories, and a local upload script. Follows and likes from the #Fediverse are possible. It's an early alpha version, but the basics work in under 1800 LoC #Python. Now all that's missing is the final design and code cleanup 🥳🎉

I couldn't get pixelfed to work under #NixOS. That's why I'm building pxvoid now. A simple, self-hosted web gallery with #ActivityPub integration. No multi-user management, no filters, no stories, and a local upload script. Follows and likes from the #Fediverse are possible. It's an early alpha version, but the basics work in under 1800 LoC #Python. Now all that's missing is the final design and code cleanup 🥳🎉

"Upgrades without fear", by @rgbax

A concise summary of the benefits you can expect from adopting functional package management as implemented by #NixOS and #Guix.

https://wiki.ralfbarkow.ch/view/welcome-visitors/view/upgrades-without-fear

I like the progressive style of the NixOS quick start instructions @algernon . The quikc starts for Nginx and Caddy look super handy also. Very clever inversion of the fallback to errors.

https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/documentation/3/getting-started/nixos/

#NixOS #Iocaine

A Samsung #chromebook 4 about to live it's best life!

#nixOS #nixbook #linux

want to help bring digital autonomy using #NixOS?
fediversity.eu is hiring (EU-based) developers!
we'll also be at #fosdem's #nix track next week.

want to help bring digital autonomy using #NixOS?
fediversity.eu is hiring (EU-based) developers!
we'll also be at #fosdem's #nix track next week.

Ended 2025 by replacing my Gmail with a European alternative, started 2026 with a fresh installation of #NixOS, this time with #Hyprland. Having a lot of fun with tinkering. Decade old laptop still going strong! 💪

Occasionally NixOS updates break, and I find myself unable to build a new system until it's fixed upstream. But then I realize I can just revert back to the last stable commit of my config git repository and be on my merry way. Nix really brings some of the best aspects of software development (such as a last known good commit) to configuring your OS.

By the way I can recommend "nh" as an excellent wrapper around the basic system tools. It provides a lot more information on what packages were updated, added and removed.

https://github.com/nix-community/nh

#linux #nixos

#RStats📦rix 0.17.4 is out!

Major #Python QoL improvements: automatic LD_LIBRARY_PATH setup for easy integration with uv, new py_src_dir for editable-style Python dev in #Nix shells, and smarter cachix detection (no more noise on #NixOS).

Plus docs cleanup & cache setup updates

#RStats📦rix 0.17.4 is out!

Major #Python QoL improvements: automatic LD_LIBRARY_PATH setup for easy integration with uv, new py_src_dir for editable-style Python dev in #Nix shells, and smarter cachix detection (no more noise on #NixOS).

Plus docs cleanup & cache setup updates

Looking back on it now, if I could do it all over again, I would've just started with NixOS.

I see people recommending NOT to make NixOS your first Linux distro, and I can't see where that advice is even coming from, frankly.

I've learned so much more about the inner workings of Linux systems, by using NixOS, than by any other means. I see no reason why that would be any less true if I'd never touched anything else.

I look at it like this: every other distribution, however ironically, hides the system by exposing it to the user directly; NixOS, however ironically, exposes the entirety of the system to the user by doing so at a high level of abstraction. Everything that happens on the system configured at the same level of abstraction; that is, there is no package manager properly: there is instead, if we're calling it what it actually is, a build system (that is for some reason, inexplicably) marketed as one.

It completely changes the entire concept of what having an operating system installed on your computer even means.

I honestly believe I would have a better understanding than I do now, now, had I simply jumped straight from Windows to NixOS and never bothered with anything else at any point.

#Linux #NixOS #Nix

@tuxedocomputers@linuxrocks.online @BjornW following this as prefer #nixos

If you're only going to read one thread about the constant ongoing shitshow with #NixOS governance, let it be this one. Because all the finer details just don't actually matter.

https://flausch.social/@piegames/115276644539421115

After almost a year of full time using #nixos today was the day I realized, I don't need to `ssh` to the other computer, `git pull` and switch.
If `ssh` is there, #nix can connect to the other computer, build and deploy all from my main computer.

I was aware of nix's ability to connect and deploy to other computers, I don't know why it took me so long to realize how simple it is.

Merry Christmas 🎉

Here's the command I'm using `nh` instead of `nixos-rebuild`:
https://github.com/woile/nix-config/blob/main/justfile#L7-L10

Are you ready for the 2026 Nix/NixOS sprint season?

Ocean Sprint will happen in April on Lanzarote, registration is open until 20th January:
https://oceansprint.org/
A great opportunity to meet people from the community, hack and swim with great weather!

Already in February, the first Aurora Sprint will be happening in Reykjavik, Island:
https://aurorasprint.com/
The sprint focuses on Nix for embedded linux systems.

#Nix #NixOS

The Polyglot NixOS

https://x86.lol/generic/2025/12/19/polyglot.html

#HackerNews #Polyglot #NixOS #NixOS #Community #Programming #Languages #DevOps

Are you ready for the 2026 Nix/NixOS sprint season?

Ocean Sprint will happen in April on Lanzarote, registration is open until 20th January:
https://oceansprint.org/
A great opportunity to meet people from the community, hack and swim with great weather!

Already in February, the first Aurora Sprint will be happening in Reykjavik, Island:
https://aurorasprint.com/
The sprint focuses on Nix for embedded linux systems.

#Nix #NixOS

Whew. Biggest donation to date!

15 upcycled Dell Latitudes with 10th gen i7, 16 gigs of ram, and NVMe drives.

We partnered with a local program that helps families with Christmas presents, and they always want laptops.

This year, The Computer Upcycle Project was able to deliver.

Freaking love this work!

#nixbook #nixos #linux #upcycle

This week is going to be SO MUCH FUN on the Linux For Everyone front. Please consider subscribing to the podcast if you haven't yet:

🔊 https://feeds.fireside.fm/linuxforeveryone/rss

I'm currently editing a terrific conversation with @codemonkeymike about how he's using #NixOS and his free time to make a huge impact on peoples lives.

Tomorrow I'm reuniting with @thelinuxEXP, @gamingonlinux and @gardiner_bryant to record "Games For Everyone..."

And on Thursday, the wonderful @vkc to chat music production on Linux!