@NobbZ

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Just a note to my handful of followers: I am moving over to genserver.social. So if you want to follow me there, its @[email protected]

If you use #NixOS or #nix and want to contribute with the new release (22.05), please check one of the failing builds from https://zh.fail/ and throw a PR at https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs by following the instructions from this issue https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/172160.

Thank you!

ZERO Hydra Failures

Website to track the number of failing builds on hydra.nixos.org

In 2013, someone requested a guided/graphical installer for #NixOS for the first time. There have been at least 6 attempts so far that all failed. Now, 9 years later, we have finally merged an implementation based on the #Calamares framework. It will be part of the stable release at the end of this month and is already available in unstable.

https://github.com/NixOS/nixos/issues/99
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/100475
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/21662
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/161788

https://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixos/trunk-combined/nixos.iso_gnome.x86_64-linux
https://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixos/trunk-combined/nixos.iso_plasma5.x86_64-linux

Guided installer · Issue #99 · NixOS/nixos

Given that options are organized hierarchically and have type annotations, it should in principle be straightforward (though a decent amount of work) to have a general tool for guiding users throug...

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