I found these interesting Nix OS articles series for users that want to try it and learn first things, have a good reading!
- NixOS Series #1: Why Should You Consider Using NixOS?
- NixOS Series #2: How to Install NixOS on a Virtual Machine?
- NixOS Series #3: Install and Remove Packages in NixOS
- NixOS Series #4: Things To Do After Installing NixOS
- NixOS Series #5: How to set up home-manager on NixOS?
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Oh that’s good that they are addressing those issues with a new command. Hopefully it gets into stable soon.
Might be that
nix-env -iAis bad practice! I’m strictly talking about ux design here andnix-env -iAis being recommend by blogs and nix themselves. (Nixpkgs tells you how to install usingnix-env -iA)A new user isn’t going to know what bad practice is.
It actually recommends using
nix-env -i, which is even worse because with that command it searches the whole repository instead of just getting the correct attribute on nixpkgs. It takes half a minute to run the command, it’s insane.