NixFriend: Umm, sorry you're going to need to open your terminal and change your nix-channels to https://channels.nixos.org/nixos-26.06 and you're going to need to do it under sudo.

user: umm, ok, now i'm upgraded?

NixFriend: no, not quite, you need nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade

user: ohh jeeze, ok. umm, i got an error, a couple hundred lines it's kind of vague about a bunch of functions failing

NixFriend: Go back up 70-80 lines and see if it calls out a certain package being a problem, just ignore all the messages about variables not being set.

user: ohh wow, yeah, ok, something about pinentry and specifying ncurses and some messages about name deprecation

NixFriend: ohh yeah ok, that's pretty easy, go edit these text files, change all the names if mentions and either remove pinentry or just make or leave in pinentry-ncurses

user: Ohh ok; Now it's complaing that /boot is full

[–] MuckyWaffles@leminal.space 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I tried NixOS for a solid month, didn't click for me, so now I'm on gentoo. I'll have to try it again someday.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

I absolutely adore doing shell.nix environments and flakes. I basically don't have anything installed that I don't need on a daily basis. I use syncthing to keep a folder full of shell environments backed up.

cd /nixShells/video nix-shell

BOOM, I have yt-dlp, ffmpeg-full, mpv, timg, kdenlive, python 3.12 with a bunch of subrip and AI subtitle generators. I do what is needed and exit and it's all gone.

I keep one for wine, one for mp3, one for parsec, one for video

Then I have flakes for real development work.

admittedly, it's a lot :)

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Don't worry. I tried it for about 2 years and didn't quite get the hang of it. Back on Arch now. NixOS really has a steep learning curve and not nearly enough documentation.

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago

If you want to explore other immutable and declarative OSes – as well –, you could take Guix for a spin, too (and you can install things such as proprietary software with the NonGuix software repository, in case that's a concern any).

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