So, the flake.nix file in the video uses extraSpecialArgs, instead of specialArgs that Nix uses, so I got "error: function 'anonymous lambda' called with unexpected argument 'extraSpecialArgs'". For everyone getting the same issue, please replace "extraSpecialArgs = {inherit inputs;};" from the flake.nix file with "specialArgs = {inherit inputs;};". (Although, I am pretty sure that @Vimjoyer already fixed the template flake)

What do you guys think about the thumbnail?

saw your channel from NoBoilerplates good vid

This is by far the best nix flake explanation on the internet

This is THE best nix video I've ever watched! I've tried to understand nix multiple times, but I couldn't find any tutorial that covers how these files interact and how they relate to functions I care about systematically like you do. Please make more videos like this!

Ugh where was this series when I started using NixOS??? Seriously though, this series is, in my opinion, one of the best resources on NixOS available on KZfaq, if not on the internet. Also I really adore your style of presenting and editing, keep up the good work :)

After using debian as my main distro for years and years - I've finally decided to give NixOS a try. This video was super helpful as a starting point for working on configs and has already given me ideas on how I can use flakes and modules to manage development environments. Thanks!

Thank you for the video! By the end of it you're showing a recommended structure as to split into multiple hosts and create modules. I've been struggling with getting that to work and would love a follow up video on that! Tks again for the great content you're doing!

NixOS has been there for 20 Years!! What?? Why did I only start using this gem last year! NixOS is honestly the best distro for me. Sending much well wishes to all the developers who made NixOS come true

Thanks for this, I was sleeping on my nix configuration, good reminder that I should start using it

Oh, this is good! I have already set up everything, but this will be a great watch for anyone new! I'll be sure to recommend

I wish I could like this video more than once. The transition from the old configuration.nix paradigm and the new flakes paradigm has kept me from looking at NixOS at all. I want to use flakes because it is obvious that is where Nix is headed, but I couldn't figure out how to get there. Thanks so much for this video!

Nice video. I've found Nix to be the next logical step on my Linux journey, and flakes see to be a rough point for most, including myself. Lots of information in 15 minutes. Thanks!

Thank you very much for populating the great system. I use NixOS desktop as an ordinary home user for 3 years. Many times I tried distro hoping, but had always been back to predictable reliable NixOS.

This was awesome, best video for getting started with NixOS

This video is so dense; but incredibly nice. Definitely migrating to NixOS, this is beautiful.

As per usual a great video, I wish this had been around when I was learning nixos hahahah. Keep up the good work!

Excellent breakdown. I was also recommended from NoBoilerPlates channel. Subscribed and ready to learn more about NixOS.

Excellent video thank you for easing my transition into nix os

Awesome content. Many thanks for sharing it with us!!!

currently staring at a blank nixos tty trying to setup hyprland. This video came just in time

So concise, great vid.

Excellent overview!

Love and thanks for sharing such great knowledge.

my brain is melting from the amount of piece of information this video has

This is awesome! Thank you, really.

Absolutely based video preview. Keep it up!

Very good video! Thanks!

Best nixos guide so far! Дякую!

thank you so much for helping us to move configuration to flake.

... this makes me want to try out nix. I'll try it when I eventually get myself a new laptop.

Your channel is amazing, man! Especially the Nix series. I have used Linux for more than 11 years both on personal computers and servers, but I only recently got started with Nix. Your channel has been a great help so far, as well as a source of inspiration on what Nix can do. It's definitely going to be the next skill I master, and it'll probabely replace half of Ansible, Docker, and Nginx code I write, if not more. Not to mention managing my desktop configuration and automating installs with nixos-anywhere, Disko, flakes, and Home Manager! I initially didn't like Nix because it's not FHS compliant, and I'd prefer if it was, but it seems like there are solutions to this too, and you can still run software and scripts with hardcoded paths to executables. Keep up the good work! P.S.: Дякую! І Слава Україні! 🇺🇦🇬🇪 The accent and the name of the month on the top panel were dead giveaways. 😃

Estava pensando em começar a usar essa distro, essa é uma boa oportunidade começar

This pill is gold! 🙌

I love the idea of NixOS. The Nix package manager has packages for DaVinci Resolve out of all things and is super simple to install Hyprland with. Unfortunately Nvidia and NixOS don't work so well together and kept getting visual bugs on bare metal. When I get an Intel or AMD card I'm definitely going to continue with NixOS.

for anyone still having issues... in the flake file... its specialArgs and in configuration.nix... its extraSpecialArgs... i was stuck on this for a while... making them both specialArgs. wonderful series... I finally got past this hurdle ... thank you.

I rewatched this video like 10 times (5 because I was slow and 5 times the default gnome browser froze the video). Also you talk fast and do things fast but treat it as a compliment because it's better to rewatch video than wait for some guy to think and make sounds of thinking 😂😂😂

this is not worth using i already got nixos setup and now switching it all to homemanager and flakes is not worth it i have to take LSD to be able to figurethis out liek wtf

Okay! That was a ride. Finally made it to the end of the video (I mean, doing the thing, I've probably watched it 20 times additively)! Now I'm being stumped though: why are you moving /e/nixos to ~/ ? I did it thinking it was about making is a non-root directory and now I'm hella confused with my super obsolete memory of how to do permissions in linux. Edit: nevermind, figured out the permissions. Totally forgot x was needed to ls in a directory. Now I'm still stumped by the fabled sudo-less rebuild, but I guess more friendly manual ahead! ... Diving back into Linux with NixOS was probably a bad idea, but hey. Mama didn't raise no quitter

Before watching. No way! How are you gonna do this in 15min??? After watching. Wow, great job!

Great video. Two questions (1) When you do the rebuild, do you always use the flake command or non flake version? (2) For the portion about further splitting your config files, can you elaborate or point to the import/export setup? I assume this means I would instead setup something like the alacrity config in the modules, then import into home.nix?

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Hi Vimjoyer, Thanks for the great video! Also I have a question, there is a folder located at ~/.config/home-manager with a flake.nix and home.nix file. Are they necessary files for home manager or are they safe to delete?

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What theme do you use for your code? It looks awesome!

could you make a tutorial on how to customize zsh with detail using home-manager?

One thing is that I wish there were tools to streamline some parts of Nix. For instance Homemanager is great in concept but it means anytime you want to configure a program you *_need_* to interact with it's config file directly, figure out how to get the change you want, and make/modify the module for it. I wish there was some diff integration tool or something that could look at the state of your config file(s) and autogenerate/modify a basic module to basically "pull" those changes into your nix config. Nix is great in a lot of ways but it's those little usability hurdles that do really annoy me. There are times when you just want to change a setting without needing to directly fiddle with the config files. (Sorta like how nix shell just lets you install and run something without *_actually_* having to install it)

8:38 - I'm curious, how'd you get these icons in your ls output? Is there some option to ls that I'm not aware of? A different version of ls, perhaps? Or are you just post-processing it manually for the video? Other? Curious to know more (even in the post-processing case, I'd be interested in what your method for doing so is)!

I'm trying NixOS as a Virtual Machine on my Macbook M1. In case anyone is trying also, I had to make a minor adjustment to the flake.nix to change the processor architecture. In the `outputs` section, change the system variable to "aarch64-linux", i.e. system = "aarch64-linux";

What software do you use to generate the animated transitions between different versions of text files?

I keep telling myself that when I get a 2tb SSD I will put on a couple of OSes on it, and Nix might be the first one, followed by Gentoo and Arch

Rejoice! A video I can send to my ffriends :)))))

Thank you for the video, system configuration is stored in configuration.nix and you can rollback, but can you rollback also nix flake upgrades? Is it a simple change on pointing to anothe hash commit?

Hi, thank you for the video, I’m using Nix on macOS, and it changed my life. May I know your hardware for NixOS? I’m considering to get a device for NixOS. I see people using Wayland for window manager, I’m also interested in it.

Do note that in addition to searching packages, the same website has an option searching function that you can use instead of searching through man.

all i got was a ton of errors. nix is a pain in the behind. wish the docs were clearer.

I rather manage home-manager apart from the system configuration, I feel cumbersome to `sudo` into a file that could perfectly live next to the rest of my user files.

I have an extensive /etc/nixos/configuration.nix file declaring the installation of applications for R and python suitable for a data science / data analysis / machine learning workstation. The channel is nixos-23.05. Everything built for my 2023-11-04 installation, but if I try to rebuild anything now, I get errors. The errors are all "dependencies of derivation ' . . . ' failed to build. Some examples are python3.10-jupyter-server-2.0.6, python3.10-notebook-shim-0.2.2, sage-with-env-10.0, r-quarto-1.2, RStudio-2022.07.1+554-wrapper, etc. Am I receiving these 'failed to build' errors now because the channel is 23.05? Recommendation? Switch to 24.05 (unstable) or to 23.11?

so i made it to the end and it made sense, kind of, but the structuring part threw me off a bit, i think when i do this i wont bother with that for now. i watched someone else do a video on flakes and created "my first flake!" however there was an added layer of complexity to theirs because they copied the configuration.nix from /etc/nixos/ to a new folder in ~/ and then the output for the flake was that new config file, so i ended up with 2 configuration.nix, not knowing what the point or purpose of the 1 in /etc/nixos/ was anymore.. thank you for the video, my head is actually hurting which is a good sign that i may be close to learning something new if i stick to it do you have any reccomendations for a text edtior that shows the tree or structure (sory i dont know the terminology) of whatever it is you are editing e.g. if i had flake.nix open in it, it would list stuff from that flake.nix in an almost file browser tree kind of way on the side somewhere? (if you want to know what i mean then if you search for 'nix flakes' on youtube his video is the purple 1)

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The 'extraSpecialArgs' at 11:18 gives the following error: error: function 'anonymous lambda' called with unexpected argument 'extraSpecialArgs' I need to switch it to 'specialArgs' for it to work.

Can you try GuixOS? I've been very curious because on paper the features and design seem better, especially since everything is in scheme, but adoption seems much lower.

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Are there any recommended guides on installing Nix with disk encryption?

can you make a tutorial on cron job in nixos please? I find it quite hard to implement

how did you get syntax highlighting in your man pages? is it because of the zsh or your terminal? Mine is all just white on black.

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Everything breaks down at 12:16 for me: The command "nix run home-manager/master --init" doesn't run, whether I include the && sudo ... second command with it or not. Complains about the --init flag. Anybody else have that problem?

Quick question, if I'm running nixos 24.05 and my flake (your template) specifies in the inputs the nixos-unstable channel, does that mean my whole system will move to the unstable branch when i do the rebuild (with the --flake flag) ?

Nix users 5 seconds after installing an OS that only has 1 config file for literally everything: hmm, this is nice, but how can I add more config files?

can someone tell me how to install ruby 2.4.t as in ubuntu im using rbenv to do so how can here we achive this

Do I still need to add home-manager package in system packages with this approach? I cannot run 'home-manager' commands

is it safe to use the configuration.nix file to reproduce a nix install if the `system.stateVersion`s are different?

the terminal theme looks pretty , where can i get that on ubuntu

Could you please explain what the `default` in `inputs.home-manager.nixosModules.default` refers to? Can/should it be changed if I have multiple hosts?

Is there an easy way of referencing the modules folder in the root directory from a nested file, like in a host? I am using this to import modules, but its quite long if I wanted more modules: imports = [ ../../modules/home-manager/programs/nvim .. ]; I am thinking of just shortening the start and appending "nvim" and so on for each program, but it could be nice with something like inputs.modules.programs.nvim

flake 'path:/etc/nixos' does not provide attribute 'packages.x86_64-linux.nixosConfigurations."default".config.system.build.nixos-rebuild', 'legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.nixosConfigurations."default".config.system.build.nixos-rebuild' or 'nixosConfigurations."default".config.system.build.nixos-rebuild' Did you mean nixosConfigruations?

So at the end of the day we end up with multiple config files. Kind of the opposite of NixOS' premise of having just one no?

I'm having trouble with the last part of the video where you nest your configuration files. When I import the configuration in the same folder as just ./configuration.nix it's working, but when I move my files and point to ./hosts/default/configuration.nix I'm getting an error: error: getting status of '/nix/store/n392z7lcgs3dsf1pb4nf95hap00wrzb6-source/hosts': No such file or directory Earlier in the error chain it is saying: throw "Module imports can't be nested lists. Perhaps you meant to remove one level of lists? Definitions: ${showDefs defs} I can't figure out where it's going wrong?

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Which ohmyzsh theme are you using?

What is a fresh package? I keep hearing that term but I don't get the difference between a package and a fresh package.

NixOS is an operating system that can take months or years to master. The Ultimate NixOS Guide is about 15 minutes long. Something seems to be incongruent here.

Why are you using the unstable branch? I think most people would probably want to use a stable one, just so nothing unexpected breaks.

For some reason after doing the setup for homemanager and trying to rebuild the process just stops with exitcode 9. --It doesn't give any error messages or anything, the terminal tab just closes itself.-- Running the command with --verbose tells me "home-manager.specialArgs" doesn't exist in configuration.nix even though I clearly wrote it in there? What am I doing wrong?

I have a working NixOS 23.05 last updated / built with Generation 35 on 04 November 2023. I cannot get it updated, and switching to the latest channel did not help. It builds tons of packages and after 2h36min of $ nixos-rebuild build, fails with dependencies of dbus, unit-accounts-daemon, unit-polkit.service, user-units, and X-Restart-Triggers failing to build. It is odd that everything built from the 23.05 Stoat channel to get me to Generation 35 on 04 November 2023, but now I cannot update or upgrade this 23.05 to 23.11 Tapir (also tried) and 24.05 Uakari. My only thought is to take my configuration.nix file and use it to install a fresh unstable / 24.05 Uakari into another partition to see if a # nixos-install can build this configuration.

What is the relationship between a channel url and the nixos/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable url?

Can you tell me please, why intalling the nix package manager forces me to install the whole shitty aws sdk as dependency even if I do not use amazon server?

Im having problem adding hosts cannot no file or directory. It only works if a rename it to default

Hey, I don't have the `man home-configuration.nix` command working after following the video. What can I do?

early on, when trying to rebuild, I get the error that no matches are found: /etc/nixos#default. what am I doing wrong?

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Naaaah I'm gonna stick with fedora xD By brain is imploding, I can find my way around Hyprland but nix is too much.

Could anyone please tell me what font he is using

your pronunciation of "etc" made me realise why the store "etsy" is named the way it is....

"Focusing on *simple* declarative configuration" LOL

I use arch by the way