Hey there, I have switched to #NixOS recently. I was on #Fedora Kinoite before, which is an "atomic desktop" and was too restrictive to do random standard things.
I try to get my system more stable and less crashy, so I use the linux-longterm #kernel (which did not want to work on Kinoite). This works amazingly well on NixOS.
I haven't understood the language at all, but if you tell me what you need to can see if I can help you write your config.
@fireborn the great thing with NixOS is, that everything is immutable and you have a ton of ready made options to setup complex things.
Issues arise when stuff you want isn't already packaged as an option. You may find flakes for a lot more, like the COSMIC desktop, but quality varies.
Especially with accessibility it wouldn't wonder me if there would be options missing. Then you would need to dig into the language and learn how to write them. But let's see?
I have had weird issues that are not promising
- systemd run0 (a sudo alternative that does not need setuid) is broken out of the box
- same with Apparmor or SELinux, Apparmor breaks SDDM when in strict mode (killing unconfined processes)
- the app "whisper" which allows listening to your mic, tells me that I have no pipewire. But I do? Might be an app issue
- USBGuard does not work correctly, while it worked fine on Fedora
Apart from that it works great XD
all these are structural quality issues, I hope you don't stumble upon a lot.
The CLI is nice, for search and more use "nh". But it is veery verbose, I thought of that when listening to your #TechOverTea episode. It should have a less verbose mode
boredsquirrel