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Is anyone using NixOS as their daily driver? (ymmel.nl)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm currently running Arch and it's great, but I'm noticing I'm not staying on the ball in regards to updates. I've been reading a bit about Nix and NixOS and thinking of trying it as my daily driver. I've got a Lenovo x1 xtreme laptop, I don't do much gaming (except OSRS), use firefox, jetbrains stuff, bitwarden, remmina, obsidian, and docker.

Is anyone running NixOS as their daily? How are you liking it and are there any pitfalls / stuff you wish you knew before?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Yes! It's honestly great of you can accept not going outside of the nixpkgs ecosystem. I'm not enough of a wizard yet to do much more than build a fhs environment to run some outside apps, but for the most part nixos has everything. Oh except KDE didn't have working network manager integration, buuut that was probably something I didn't set up correctly in my nixos config

I do reboot into Ubuntu for Minecraft, but nothing else

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Networkmanager with Plasma works fine on my notebook, it should be rather trivial

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm sure it's something I did. Switching to KDE then back to gnome also broke my gnome shell cursors, probably with a config in my user profile :P a project for another day...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do reboot into Ubuntu for Minecraft

FYI: Minecraft and PrismLauncher are packaged.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Does prismlauncher do bedrock edition? I saw that mcpelauncher is on its way, that's what I'm using on Ubuntu

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It does not. Prism Launcher only supports the Java version of the game at this time.

Someone looks to have wrapped MCPELauncher in a flake however which may work. It appears to just wrap the AppImage version of it which seems promising.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Nope, Prism doesn't do bedrock.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh you meant the bastardised version of Minecraft. Yeah, that's not packaged I believe.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That's the one!! 😁