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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] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Another daily driver user here (for about a year now). NixOS on all hardware that can run it (desktop, servers). Nix-darwin/home-manager/nix-on-droid everywhere else.

I don't see myself going back to anything else, it's great.

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

Just having a look at nix on droid, from what I gather it's basically just termux but with the nix package manager right?

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

More or less, yep. It is integrated well though. For instance, you configure the terminal font with your nix config instead of setting it in the termux theme app.

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

Oh sweet, would I be a complete maniac for trying to run a DE with and xrdping in from Android as I've heard people do with base termux sometimes?

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

I haven't tried doing that, but it would definitely be possible. You won't have out of the box support for X-related configuration like you do on NixOS though.

If you give it a shot, please let me know how you go.

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

Ahh I'm not sure how I'd do it without being able to use the nix config to be honest was kinda hoping to just use the normal settings for enabling DEs

Might still have a crack at it but NixOS might not be the right tool for the job