I heard a lot about the concepts of nix and NixOS and I’d love to try it.
After installing the VirtualBox demo, I keep getting stuck with every tiny step I take, though.
So I was wondering if there are any tutorials for beginners that you can recommend?
I couldn’t find anything on the internet - everything that looks like a tutorial presumes a lot of things everybody seems to know about nix, so no need to explain those.
Where can I find those explanations to make the first baby steps with NixOS?
To put it in other words: Where is NixOS for dummies?
I’ve been playing with NixOS in spare time for a few weeks now and I’m afraid I don’t have a very good news for you. It looks like the learning curve is just very steep. It took me quite a lot of time to get to the point where I have any idea what I’m doing. Some beginner friendly resources which helped me:
Vimjoyer videos on YT,
LibrePheonix videos on YT,
Misterio77 Nix starter configs and his own config.
In general, I recommend checking out people’s configs on GitHub. You can learn a lot by example.
Thank you very much for those links!
Generally I don’t like video tutorials much - I prefer reading things in my own speed and being able to copy & paste stuff.
But only looking at the titles of those videos sounds promising enough to give them a try :-)
(I didn’t yet have the time to watch any of them.)
One aspect I find interesting:
One look at the Misterio77 configs shows that the concept of flakes seems to be important. I have no idea what they are, but I can see that both youtubers have something about flakes as the second video in their NixOS playlists - looks like I should better learn about this concept soon :-)
Oh! Just found out that LibrePheonix accompanies each video with a blog article - that’s nice 🙂
https://librephoenix.com/blog.html
Once you have some foundational knowledge, I find more answers searching github with
language:nix <some terms>. Usually I can find a few repos with an adjacent enough solution to deconstruct and apply to my setup.