NixOS for the Impatient

Re:NixOS for the Impatient by bryanlarsen on Friday June 09, 2023 @03:18PM (#36262730)

AFAICT, you can get much of the benefit in a polished package without the pain by using Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite/Sericea for the OS and then creating dev sandboxes using either Fedora's toolbox or by harnessing the incredible Nix ecosystem using JetPack's devbox.

I haven't tried that combination. I'm currently using NixOS and loving part of it, but am bleeding on the sharp edges.

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Re:NixOS for the Impatient by speed_spread on Friday June 09, 2023 @04:54PM (#36264041)

I'm currently using Fedora Kinoite with a few toolboxes (one for Rust, one for Node, etc). While not as fancy as a full Nix setup, it's an incredibly robust system that's modern and easy to maintain. A+ would recommend.

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Re:NixOS for the Impatient by bketelsen on Friday June 09, 2023 @06:43PM (#36265289)

We built Bluefin - https://ublue.it for just this case. A custom version of Silverblue, primed for Nix with Devbox + Fleek global profiles.

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