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Tried NixOS ! (dvd.chat)
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Tried NixOS !

So I tried nixos and I love how things work, I am glad that it exists. Will learn about Flakes today. Any recommended resource to learn it? :)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a difference. Without it, it loads the flake from /etc/nixos/flake.nix instead of the current directory. (What is redundant is the #, you can just write --flake .)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, true, valid point. Guess I never thoughg about rebuilding from anywhere not /etc/nixos

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

FYI you can do:

nixos-rebuild switch --flake git+https://yourgithost.com/yourrepo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Also, depending on how the flake is setup, you might also have to add .#hostname, at least for the initial run. After that .# can evaluate which host is being rebuilt.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@[email protected] @ck_ haha, on lemmy, I was trying to add .#\, but \ kept getting deleted. Markdown??