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NixOS is a Linux distribution built on top of the Nix package manager. Its declarative configuration allows reliable system upgrades via several official channels of stability and size.

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Getting started with NixOS - looking for tutorials (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 7 months ago by silmaril@discuss.tchncs.de to c/nixos@infosec.pub

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I heard a lot about the concepts of nix and NixOS and I'd love to try it.

After installing the VirtualBox demo, I keep getting stuck with every tiny step I take, though.

So I was wondering if there are any tutorials for beginners that you can recommend?

I couldn't find anything on the internet - everything that looks like a tutorial presumes a lot of things everybody seems to know about nix, so no need to explain those.

Where can I find those explanations to make the first baby steps with NixOS?

To put it in other words: Where is NixOS for dummies?

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[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

i installed nix in my fedora and i can say that in this case just jumping in it is easier because you can search about the errors imo

[–] silmaril@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I know what you mean - the problem with this approach is that things might work, but I am using it not in the way it's intended, because I didn't understand the underlying concepts.. But I cannot search for concepts of which I don't know they exist...

[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

lol true, i read a comment that explained it as " nix is for people who need to install different apps all the time, especially programmers who need to test with every different lybrary etc, or people who need to have their system writen in a config file, to deploy it to others computers etc" so for me this isn't viable, i only use nix for a few packages that i want to keep up to day, or packages that fedora don't have, that's way i went with fedora atomic and nix, a stable system but without needing the entire nixOS