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?

  • Cralex@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I wanted to install it on my Pinebook Pro (AARCH64, with Tow-Boot installed to SPI) but I haven’t gotten it working.

    • pr06lefs
      1·
      1 year 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.

      • oldfart@lemm.ee
        1·
        1 year 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

        • pr06lefs
          1·
          1 year 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.