ikidd@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 month agoThree Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Uglypierrezemb.frexternal-linkmessage-square107linkfedilinkarrow-up1187arrow-down16 cross-posted to: linux@programming.devlinux@programming.dev
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minus-squareiopq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoIf you download a binary you can just steam-run it and it just works
minus-squareSolarBoy@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoThis command will just run an executable file on nix. Normally only executables which are installed from the package manager will work. appimage-run is another option. Which can be used to run, you guessed it, appimages
minus-squareiopq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoBut appimages will complain about unmet dependencies, so usually they don’t work
minus-squareSolarBoy@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoI haven’t had any issues thus far. But I have not used a lot of appimages. Usually I can find everything in nixpkgs, and those that I didn’t all worked with appimages.
If you download a binary you can just
steam-runit and it just works?
This command will just run an executable file on nix. Normally only executables which are installed from the package manager will work.
appimage-runis another option. Which can be used to run, you guessed it, appimagesBut appimages will complain about unmet dependencies, so usually they don’t work
I haven’t had any issues thus far. But I have not used a lot of appimages. Usually I can find everything in nixpkgs, and those that I didn’t all worked with appimages.