I’m currently running Arch and it’s great, but I’m noticing I’m not staying on the ball in regards to updates. I’ve been reading a bit about Nix and NixOS and thinking of trying it as my daily driver. I’ve got a Lenovo x1 xtreme laptop, I don’t do much gaming (except OSRS), use firefox, jetbrains stuff, bitwarden, remmina, obsidian, and docker.

Is anyone running NixOS as their daily? How are you liking it and are there any pitfalls / stuff you wish you knew before?

  • pr06lefs
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    11 months ago

    Regular nixos user here. Also failed on pinebook nixos, then bricked it trying to install something else. Ah well, seemed like it would be a cool machine.

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      10 months ago

      SPI flash bricked the machine? That should be a fairly easy repair for your local electronics shop, if you tell them what file to flash there

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        10 months ago

        Its been a while since I did it. I needed towboot but you couldn’t install that with the default distro, then I tried installing another distro and now it doesn’t even show an LED when I plug it in. Is it flash, is it something else? Dunno. Just hasn’t been enough of a priority for me to spend more time on it.