NixOS | For Gaming?

The important thing about NixOS is that there are very few conventions relied upon for filesystem dependencies. My system has nothing at /bin/bash, instead, every package that needs bash uses precisely the version of bash that its author asked for. If your gaming packages are breaking, it's because they are depending on files that they do not provide. Perhaps the NixOS way of preventing reliance on convention is overkill for the gaming community, but it's a feature, not a bug. If you want stuff to work on NixOS reliably, you have to be willing to fix packages that make bad assumptions about which files can be found where. It's work, but there's no better way to get that kind of reliability--and once you've fixed it, you've fixed it for everybody.

After figuring out Arch, and then Gentoo I don't think I have time and energy for another round of such things. But the idea of configuration as a text still persists my mind, having huge config and install a new system in just 3-5 commands, fully configured is very attractive.

This is the first video of yours that I've seen. I will subscribe. I like your no nonsense, honest, direct and clear approach. Plus you're a fellow Canadian so I must give support to my brother! Thanks, Hugo!

In general, for gaming the unstable channel is advised (if you use channels). This make NixOs akin to a 'rolling relase' distro. Maybe this was the cause of some of your frustration?

Nice ! love your video dude

It was super easy for me with an amd gpu to get steam working, I just copied and pasted a couple of lines into the config file, rebuilt it and rebooted.

i have issues with no generations being displayed in my grub screen after reboot???? Printers, scanner and nvidia installed no issues via the configuration.nix

It's a big leap for us to be able to play SOME/MOST games on Linux, but unfortunately, not all. This is the reason I had to buy windows and use it for gaming, even though I work with Linux, breathe Linux and work on Linux all the time. PS great channel!

Thanks

I think that Nix needs to improve several things in the games section, among other things. I mean, there are distros like arch, void or similar difficulty that are not so complex to prepare or cause so many problems to be able to play or do more mundane tasks.

For some reason the games run with Proton do not run on my system, only the native ones, I don't know what to do anymore... Heeelp :'u

Could you do a freebsd for gaming video?

for those of you that have a nvidia laptop with non mux switch and an amd igpu with nvidia option in the config where xorg is forced to use nvidia drivers you need to add the argument amd gpu or the intel gpu respectively if you need more details just ping me

Is easy. Steam, Lutris or "steam-run".

I'm confused about what's missing or wrong with NixOS' Steam package and Uplay. (I've never used Uplay) What are the chances that Ubuntu has implemented that NixOS needs?

I had no problems with the gnome DE

I'm already not impressed with the download speed of the iso. I'm on 200Mb connection, and it's downloading at 1MB/s.

GNU Guix gaming video waiting room 🥺

Next is gaming on GUIX 😂

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