NixOS | Linux: The Nvidia Gaming Seductress of Convenience - First Impressions

Per request, I've added the NixOS configuration I used here for those who want to use it as a foundation for building your own: github.com/Obe1sance/AlphaObeisance/tree/main/NixO…

Like you, I used to be an arch person. Now I manage 4 nixos machines from a single flake, all all nixos unstable. Every single one of them is rock solid.

love your enthusiasm. awesome to see you switching :)

You're a great talker and have a very funny personality. Your singing isn't the worst... you do have the spirit, that's what matters, you know. I love your video!

NixOS has been spreading like wild fire through the linux community. I gotta say, i understand the appeal. Just loaded up Endeavor on an old laptop that was laying around and it's been great. But all this NixOS talk is making me want to try that out on my home server. Had Manjaro on their for the last 4 or so years and it's had multiple instances where the order updates are provided breaks the system in a way where it will only update if i remove packages first and then do the update and manually re install said packages. Idk what on earth they've been doing, but if NixOS is really as good as people keep saying, I'm going to have to make the switch soon.

I'm using arch now but NixOS is actually the best OS i've ever used :)

Flakes, impermanence, disko and ofcourse home-manager.

As a developer and current Arch User, Nix OS has always had me looking. I personally like Arch, but the mechanics of the PM can be a bit annoying compared to how relatively hands of Ubuntu/Fedora's are, and variants close to them. That said, I look at Nix and I think to myself "This is how programs should be written." I am doing a game in godot and I just compiled it from source, but also I just had a performance dip on PCSX2 (probably a regression somewhere) and yeah, it is always something. If I just had 'rollback', I feel like I would not be as concerned lol. I personally rather use old and stable if it means I do not have to be the first one using new stuff and stumbling through it. Maybe when I build my new machine alongside BSD and PopOS, I will install Nix as my personal development workstation.

Diving deep into NixOS myself. I jumped straight from Ubuntu over to Nix. My initial frustration was my usual way of compiling programs from source doesn't work. I have to make a flake.nix file or use a dev shell instead. I've been hammering hard for a week learning that stuff so far. It seems like a solid foundation though which is why I feel like its worth it to put in that much effort for it.

Great video! I've also recently switched to NixOS, and found your insights quite helpful. One request please, could you please increase the font size in your videos? It's a bit hard to look at what's going on

You got it all about NixOS power :)

Man, it’d be great if you kindly share your configuration I have amd & mvidia laptop and Optimus primes is driving me crazy!

thanks for the config

I see an asciiquarium -t enjoyer, I like.

I'm an arch fan(and avid distro hoper)I've been looking into nix and it's hard but only because im too stupid lol, definitely gonna switch to nixos, it seems like everything i want and more. but for now it's on a second system as i try to get everything configured.

please download a nix language extension for vs code

Debian,Arch NixOs here! hell yeah ! NixOS is great for gaming .

NixOS! NixOS! NixOS!

wait until he finds out about home manager :D

So... you said you were gonna share the files ??? I'm seriously looking at this OS and have AMD cpu and Nvidia gpu