How I like to install NixOS (declaratively)

57 points by stapelberg


mtlynch

Great post, Michael! Thanks for this writeup! I learned some new tips.

I was looking for an alternative to Flatcar Container Linux and tried out NixOS again (after an almost 10 year break).

I find that the best NixOS blog posts are from people who learned Nix recently.

There seems to be some point in learning Nix where people just morph into aliens who only know how to communicate with other Nix aliens. They’ll explain how to fix some issue by saying something like, “Oh, just add these three lines,” and omit where you’re supposed to add them, what command you run to apply the change, or what flake/package those lines implicitly depended on installing beforehand.

I appreciate Nix posts like these where the author is still a human that remembers how other regular humans think about Nix/NixOS.