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• https://github.com/notthebee/nix-config
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As the title says. Want that i can have a single config for my systems and just require a single line to install and configure software which i always use in a bundle(office, specific programming applications, server applications,...).

https://pastebin.com/30Bh23EV and this:

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  DVfio.configuration = {
        systemd.tmpfiles.rules = [
          "f /tmp/enable-vfio-switch 0644 spiderunderurbed users -"
        ];
        environment.variables = {
          KWIN_DRM_DEVICES = lib.mkForce "";
        };
        environment.extraInit = ''
                export KWIN_DRM_DEVICES=$(${vfio}/bin/vfio)
        '';
  };

  

So there is a issue with my configuration, so, you dont really need to understand nix, just like, look at my qemu hook script, its in plain sh, and the stuff above might be self explanitory, the issue is, my nvidia drivers are still being used, despite, setting KWIN_DRM_DEVICES to card0 so the logs of libvirtd looks something like this: https://pastebin.com/TaKrsY9S if setting kwin_drm_devices to my gpu card does not work, i dont know what does and can use help

The situation: you're trying to build something, but one of your configured substituters (a.k.a binary caches) is either offline, or having a moment of being very slow. Nix doesn't automatically time out, and skip that cache. No, you just can't build. You want to disable the problem cache so you can get on with your life. But since you use NixOS you need to run nixos-rebuild to update your substituter settings. A rebuild means hitting the problem cache...

When I've run into this problem I've thought, "I really need a way to selectively disable a cache in the nix build command." Previously I've had a hard time searching for such an option. Today I found it! Here it is:

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$ nix build --option substituters "https://cache.nixos.org/ https://nix-community.cachix.org/"

  

or

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$ nixos-rebuild build --option substituters "https://cache.nixos.org/ https://nix-community.cachix.org/"

  

The flag --option overrides settings that are normally read from /etc/nix/nix.conf. The ide

Hello!

I'm getting back into NixOS again and i want to refactor my config heavily. Does anyone have any tips, advice or criticism on it? TIA.

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Edit: It was a portal error. needed to add xdg-portal-hyprland to extraPortals option. [nixos + hyprland user]

Plz help! I am enclosing related files

dotfiles - contain all nixos and firefox configs

firefox file - I don't think this file is the problem

In very short, I have a NixOS install with an /etc/fstab using UUIDs. However, my bulk drive died. I have backups, the data is not the problem.

But I can't boot NixOS without the drive. It throws me into an emergency shell, in which I can't edit /etc/fstab (read-only FS) and since I'm in emergeny mode, nixos rebuild doesn't work either (seems to be mostly a network issue).

So, what's the best, non-reinstalling way to fix that?

I’ve recently discovered nixos containers and was wondering if there where any pros/cons of running them vs. Docker containers. Like if one needs to run a containerised service, would it be better to run it as a nixos container or a docker container in terms of resource consumption? And are there any limitations of each approach?

I am attempting to configure the Tor daemon on nix-darwin. There is unfortunately no services.tor on this platform (yet ! maybe I'll port it from nixOS once I know enough Nix to do that)

I could manage it with homebrew, however, that seems like a sub-par solution, effectively moving tor entirely out of the nix store.

I have installed the package in my flake, and I would like to link a torrc config file to the right directory /etc/tor. However, when done with environment.etc, the file is linked to the general /etc outside of the store, where tor cannot find it.

How can I link this file inside tor's own /etc in the store, so it can use the configuration ?

Link to my config repo fixed at the current commit

Really cool Nix idea which could improve incremental builds and replaces IFD (import from derivation) in some instances.

The article poses it as an alt to the lang2nix pattern, but some of functions look rather challenging to understand? Do you think this might allow nixpkgs upstream to support more languages / build systems performantly out of the box, abstracting away the complexity from Nix users?

I'm on unstable and updated my flake.lock and 2 of my Steam games stopped working: Tiny Tina's Wonderlands and Elden Ring. Rolled back to my previous generation and they work again.

Is there a way to roll through nixpkgs commits to find the breaking commit? How do I gather the logs they will need and where should I report it to?

Hello, everyone! I'm a long time Linux user who has warily stared at NixOS from the safe distance one might give to wild animals on a safari for quite some time now... And I finally decided, "fuck it, I'm gonna poke it with a stick."

I absolutely adore this system, even as strange a paradigm as it is coming from a decade of "traditional" management systems. I haven't been this excited about a Linux distro since... Well, ever really. Maybe OpenSUSE Tumbleweed? I can't recall.

Anyway, I wanted to introduce myself and preach to the choir for a second, so to speak. As someone totally new to this paradigm of system management, what are your #1 must read/watch resources you would recommend? I've perused through the NixOS Learn website over the last couple of days, and I'm itching for more. I can't wait to see what all this system is capable of!

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/24675194

I think I’ll use this for custom setups for non-techies.

Hi all! I'm new to NixOS and so far I'm loving it! I'm in the middle of the process of "nixifying" all my stuff, and I've found a problem that I've not been able to solve yet: When using LibreWolf on my Mac OS laptop, I can easily add exceptions to store cookies from the padlock icon in the search bar, as you can see in the screenshot, so I don't have to re-login to some sites every time I open my browser. The problem is that on my NixOS laptop there is not such an option. I have compared settings in both setups, and they both look the same. I even tried explicitly setting pref.privacy.disable_button.cookie_exceptions to false, but no luck. The option is still not showing in the padlock menu. Here's my LibrefWolf config, in case you are curious.

I know I can manually add exceptions in the settings page, but doing it directly from the search bar is way more convenient.

I searched all aro

I'm rebuilding my home server in nixos.

Rather that configuring the various services natively in nixos, I decided to run containers via virtualisation.oci-containers whenever possible, mostly to be able to independently update the system and the various services.

Everything is going smoothly, but whenever I (for whatever reason) do nixos-rebuild boot and reboot after adding a container instead of nixos-rebuild switch, I run into this issue where podman isn't able to resolve the host (below you see the docker hub host, but it also happened with ghcr.io):

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podman-apprise-start[1352]: Trying to pull docker.io/caronc/apprise:1.1.8...
podman-apprise-start[1352]: Pulling image //caronc/apprise:1.1.8 inside systemd: setting pull timeout to 5m0s
podman-apprise-start[1352]: Error: initializing source docker://caronc/apprise:1.1.8: pinging container registry registry-1.docker.io: Get "https://registry-1.docker.io/v2/": dial tcp: lookup registry-1.docker.io: no such host


  

Does anyone know of any blogs that center around, or frequently discuss nix? My only subscription in freshRSS is NixOS weekly...and thats long since been abondoned.

It'd be really nice if there was some kind of news or ecosystem summary, so I could know about the newest nix projects as well as official sources.