Is not a new OS, and im finding very hard to grasp any stuff in Nix, things about it are very sparse and very fragmented.
Any idiot way to NIX recommendation are very appreciated
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snowflakeos is the answer
Might have something to do with not being for idiots?
Jokes aside, the documentation is always the worth part about NixOS. I hope that will change, but don’t expect an “Idiots guide” anytime soon.
By the way, NixOS is only a year younger than Gentoo. I don’t know why everyone repeats like parrots the phrase about “NixOS documentation being bad”. If you have tried to read and use Gentoo or Slackware documentation, you will not find NixOS documentation very bad.
I think the Arch wiki has just spoiled us
Judging by the number of stupid questions in the Arch Linux sub and forums, no one reads the Arch Wiki.
I remember when I needed to customize my keyboard layout switching to four different languages in qtile. All the Arch Wiki recipes turned out to be bullsh*t.
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Oh god… yeah, the forums are full of landmines. And, yeah, the wiki too sometimes, though some of the common configs are pretty informative. I’ve definitely used the wiki as a reference for configuring NixOS before as well.
There is a collection of configurations on the NixOS website. Each config has documentation. You can read them ad infinitum.
I haven’t gotten to the other links, but the Nix Pills have been very helpful. Thanks!
After reading the whole thread, I wonder what bonuses all those who talk about “bad documentation” expect from NixOS. There is documentation designed for a certain level of expertise. That is, when developers assume that users will be at the same level of knowledge as they are. It is more accurate to say that the documentation in NixOS is skimpy. Given the multiple ways in which the system is organized, compiling comprehensive documentation would be madness. In our world of visual information consumption, reading is difficult and incomprehensible. But there’s always a way out. There’s Fedora, Pop!OS, Ubuntu after all, users of these systems don’t even realize that these systems have documentation. It’s not clear to me why you should cling to some NixOS while writhing in pain. Why go to any trouble when protondb gets up and running in Ubuntu in two clicks? For example, I realized that NixOS was right for me the day I installed it for the first time. But in my opinion, most people only moved to NixOS because it became more talked about. …I really like the style of answers in FreeBSD sub . When a person asks a pıdnʇs question, they are simply given a link to the handbook. By the way, the FreeBSD Handbook is interesting to read only because you can familiarize yourself with the super ancient and super archaic phenomena of the Unix-like world, but the information there is also very sketchy.
Just recently I’ve written and posted my notes on Nix, and had a great response, maybe they might be helpful for you?
https://animeshz.github.io/site/notes/20-29--DevEnvironment/21--Linux/21.02-Nix.html