January 22, 2024

546: What You’re Missing about NixOS

1 hour 11 minutes

Trying NixOS can be fraught with complexity, half-completed guides, and boring videos. Even if you never plan to switch to NixOS, we invite you to come along for a hype-free ride that digs into one of the most rapidly developing areas of Linux.

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📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM

First NixCon North America!

Southern California Linux Expo 21x — SCaLE is the largest community-run open-source and free software conference in North America. It is held annually in the greater Los Angeles area.

SCALE 21x Registration

FOSDEM 2024 - Feb 3-4 — FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels. You don't need to register. Just turn up and join in!

Getting started with NixOS by Mike Kelly — I previously wrote Why do people love NixOS so much? to try and explain the advantages of using Nix. So now let’s dive in and actually do an install!

Zero to Nix — Your guide to learning Nix and flakes.

Nix from First Principles: Flake Edition

distrobox — Use any linux distribution inside your terminal.

distrobox in nixpkgs

Building SnowflakeOS ISO

Icicle Installer

Jake Hamilton on Mastodon — I'm happy to announce that #SnowflakeOS and its related projects from @vlinkz is joining #SnowfallOrg!

Snowfall — Making nix better one project at a time.

Snowfall on GitHub

Snowfall Flake — Simplify Nix Flakes on the command line.

Unplugged Core Membership

Boltz.Exchange — Easily move between on-chain, Lightning, and Liquid