New desktop OS install: done! 🚀
You can find more details about this PC build’s hardware at https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2025-05-15-my-2025-high-end-linux-pc/ if you’re curious :)
Let’s see how this goes :D And yes, before you ask, of course I’ll blog about my experiences.
Another boss fight done:
Successfully configured my printer! 🥳
I’m making life a little harder for myself because I use systemd-resolved (which Tailscale recommends), so I needed to add MulticastDNS=yes settings until `resolvectl` shows +mDNS on my ethernet interface.
Also, I needed `services.avahi.enable = true;` in addition, only then did mDNS resolution start to work.
Lastly, I had to un-pause the printer in the CUPS web interface (not sure why it’s discovered paused…?)
Today’s boss fight was upgrading the nVidia driver to the beta version, to see if I will encounter a different (less annoying) set of bugs with the newer version :)
This involved cherry-picking commit https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/412157/files because I also need a recent Linux kernel version for the hardware in this machine.
The next boss fight seems to be getting a cross-compilation environment for aarch64 set up that supports static linking (aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc -o hello hello.c -static)
Highlights since R575 Beta Release, 575.51.02 Fixed a bug that led to increasing memory usage in X11 OpenGL and Vulkan applications after suspend/resume cycles. Fixed a bug that could cause OpenGL...
@Kiskae Doesn’t seem to work for me:
% nix shell nixpkgs#pkgsCross.aarch64-multiplatform.pkgsStatic.stdenv
% cat > hello.c <<'EOT'
#include <stdio.h>
int main() { printf("hello"); }
EOT
% aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc -o hello hello.c -static
/nix/store/4bm6qshwzvbwa03svi1zkk13z20s5cm5-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-binutils-2.44/bin/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-ld: cannot find -lc: No such file or directory
@Kiskae I wonder if glibc just doesn’t support static linking in nixpkgs? Seems like with musl, this works works:
% nix shell \
nixpkgs#pkgsCross.aarch64-multiplatform.pkgsStatic.stdenv.cc \
nixpkgs#pkgsCross.aarch64-multiplatform.pkgsStatic.musl
% aarch64-unknown-linux-musl-gcc -o hello hello.c -static
Figured out a flake.nix that gets me a working build:
{
inputs.nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs";
outputs =
{ self, nixpkgs }:
{
devShells.x86_64-linux.default =
let
pkgs = nixpkgs.legacyPackages.x86_64-linux;
crossPkgs = pkgs.pkgsCross.aarch64-multiplatform;
in
pkgs.mkShell {
buildInputs = [
crossPkgs.stdenv.cc
crossPkgs.glibc.static
];
};
};
}
Thanks!
Michael Stapelberg 🐧🐹😺
Kiskae