This gives me hope!
this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2023
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Nice choice!
Thanks! Let's see how it goes. The rolling release aspect and very polished KDE made me choose it.
I am glad for you, but I still have not gotten any help :(
Sorry to hear that. Have you tried on [email protected]? I heard it's also quite alive
I have not, I'll, although I am starting to believe it is a hardware issue :/
Ah, that sounds bad :-/
YES!!!!
I haven't actually used the search function much. Maybe I should try it. Can't be worse than reddits can it...
Currently moving to a new distro as well! I have chosen NixOS.
Enjoy!
I've been using Manjaro for the last 2 years, it I'll admit to finding NixOS interesting.
A couple of areas I have yet researched, though:
- Is there a UI for the package manager?
I realize that Nix is really powerful, and have even installed it and tinkered a bit with it. But it would be nice to be able to have a UI to quickly search and install packages of interest, and leave the CLI for the more nuanced package activities.
I've got quite a few years of experience using yum and apt. The former, about 20 years now. I use pacman mainly to do updates, and yay to install packages pacman doesn't know about. It even in Manjaro, sometimes it's just more convenient to use the UI package manager.
Learning my way around Nix... well, were back to the problem of infrequency. Use it once a week, and only to do the one thing, then everything else is back to googling. If there was a UI package manager to use most times, leaving the CLI for the more nuanced activities, then....
- Is there a tool for adapting/installing RPM or DEB packages?
I've had occasion to install something on Manjaro which was only available as a set of RPMs (try/buy graphics software). I managed to get there eventually, thanks to Google.
Is there a UI for the package manager?
There is some kind of UI, though from my (very limited) experience with it, it doesn't work that great (or maybe it does, but I only skimmed it). You can search the packages on https://search.nixos.org/packages.
For example, if you search for cowsay, you will get some information on how to install it:
nix-shell -p cowsay- install it to a temporary shell, you will have access to thecowsaybinary only in this shellnix-env -iA nixos.cowsay- install it to your environment, this is in principle similar toaptoryumbut IMO you should not really use it, as it beats the purpose of NixOS- add it to
environment.systemPackagesin configuration - this is the way for permanent packages, you add it to your OS configuration and then triggernixos-rebuild switch- this command takes your configuration and makes your system match it, meaning if you added the package to it, it would install it
So for the UI, you can use the web https://search.nixos.org/packages and for quick try-out you can run it in a temporary nix-shell.
Is there a tool for adapting/installing RPM or DEB packages
No idea, I'm pretty new. But I know there are some packages adapted like that, you can copy and edit the source code.
Yeah, I've dabbled with package searches and installs as you've described. Basically the intro to Nix.
For the importing of RPM or DEB packages, source would be great if it weren't a commercial product :) Just going from memory, it was Maya.
I meant the source code of the package, not the app itself. There's something called maya, is that it? If so, here's the package source: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-23.05/pkgs/data/fonts/gdouros/default.nix
Negative. This is Maya:
https://www.autodesk.com/products/maya/overview?term=1-YEAR&tab=subscription
Hey, could you please replace the URLs above with a html link with the post title as the text? It'll be much more concise and readable than just seeing lemmy.world/post/
Hey, I mean, just have a few clicks, they are mostly around distros choices anyway. Hopefully in the future Lemmy will handle those links with a bit more detail
The word 'issue' implies that something was wrong, but you were just bored.
You can replace it by question, I guess? I still consider this an issue, but to each their own
Of course it's a Linux distro hehe