Unter NixOS muss man bash scripte abändern ....

In die erste Zeile gehört #!/usr/bin/env bash statt #!/bin/bash

Muss man auch erst mal drauf kommen 😆

#linux #nixos #glfos #bash

Okay, so NixOS is pretty great. Reproducibility is fantastic, being able to recover a borked system easily is a life-saver, and Home Manager with things like Stylix make personalization simple.

But look, I write web stuff with Ruby and Elixir, both with their own package managers. Tools like Mise are commonplace, but it seems like they won't run on NixOS!

It may not be idiomatic Nix, but if I can't run the commonplace tools, I might just have to bail...anyone have any advice?

#nixos #ruby #elixir #linux #damn

I think I'm going to throw in the towel. I've learned a lot — mostly by asking AI, because the #NixOS documentation is just horrendous and the community even moreso. Unlike with Linux as a whole, though, it isn't just the documentation or the community: the bedrock of how this thing even functions is so anti-user. Immutability might be nice for business environments, but for the average user who wants to be able to actually use their system, maybe even tailor it to how they want it to be, there's just no way. I struggled for hours on how to change a single line in a single config file in a single SDDM theme, to no avail, and I realized: No one's doing this who isn't a developer themselves. No one is going to want to write blocks and blocks of code just to change a background image.

So yeah. I've learned a lot and I'm glad I did. It isn't that I don't see a use for it. I just don't see it as a viable daily driver for someone whose goal with #Linux is to make their system purely their own, because part of the NixOS philosophy is for it not to be.