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Do you use nix run often?
(lemmy.world)
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I don't have any packages like that to be fair but: no.
I've ran nix run perhaps .. once a year for the last years. I either create a shell.nix or add it into my config.
Just curious what would be a command you're using like this? The only one that came close to that for me was nvidia-smi and that I ran once with run and then created a shell.nix with some other debug stuff :D
I actually use it to run krita, prism launcher when the Minecraft mood peek in, inkscape, MusicBrainz picard, Alistral, peazips, libre Office.
Aka, anything that I don't use enough to warrant opening my config and adding them in (and forgetting when I do open my config.
Although krita is currently being installed through flatpack because nixpkgs ship broken alpha versions...
Ah for these tools I went full all in on home manager! But nothing wrong with a nix run if it works!
I never tried flatpacks on nixos, curious idea! Might solve the one or other flake hack I have :D thanks!
Personally I find home manager really hard to use. The documentation is really bad, and I never find what want... Nor what's possible. I don't use it because I don't want to, just I don't know how to
It was that or spaghetti an override and compile krita from scratch. So I chose the lazy way
That's funny. I also use it (semi-)regularly for Krita, Inkscape, MusicBrainz Picard, LibreOffice, and well, not Prism Launcher but Luanti.
I also have GIMP and some other games in the rotation.
My metric is kind of that if I don't use a piece of software as often as I update my system, then it's not really worth including into the system updates. Of course, I also have to not mind waiting for it to be installed, when I do want to use it.