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Good Nix OS series: five articles for new users.
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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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True. I never considered channels imperative, but rather a purity issue. But I guess this is a matter of perspective.
I don't know about this, but that doesn't mean anything.
True, though this by default only runs the default binary, and you're probably in a shell anyways, so it doesn't save that much. Also that output is, to my knowledge, not protected by garbage collection. But my knowledge of any imperative stuff is minimal, so I don't know if that's the case there.
Why doesn't it mean anything? You add the flake as an input (declarative) and then add the software to your config (also declarative).
I'm not arguing that it's better, or saves time, just that it takes things that were done imperatively, and makes them declarative.
I meant that just because I don't know about it doesn't mean that it isn't possible.
Oh gotcha, sorry.
For what it's worth, I'm still reasonably new to NixOS (but not Linux) so it's entirely possible I'm way off base.