Hello Linux community.
I’d like to take a moment to explain what I hope will be a simple concept (so really it’s more of a reminder) that everyone should say least know and understand.
Not everyone (myself included) learns best by RTFM. Some of us need a guiding hand or to watch a video instead. It’s not that we’re lazy or don’t like reading, it’s just that it doesn’t work efficiently enough.
What am I missing? There should be no difference from “normal” to flake installs on anything NixOS related, only in syntax of the language itself since you’re wrapping things. I’ve gone flakes and now somewhat dendritic and haven’t had to check NixOS docs for anything (only nix language docs and other people’s configs to see how they solved certain language specific peculiarities)
Uh… is the NixOS documentation “one of the best around” or have you never checked it? It really can’t be both.
Understand, I’m not trying to criticize NixOS. I use NixOS exclusively and it’s my daily driver. But the documentation really isn’t all there, and it’s not centralized. The best solutions you find across forums, blog posts, random wikis, and by checking other people’s configs like you said.
But yes, the fact you can test things without fear of breaking your system allows you to make hundreds of mistakes stress-free. That’s one of the best features about NixOS.
I’ve checked the NixOS documentation extensively for setting things up, my point was that I hadn’t had to do so for migrating to flakes, as that’s not a NixOS thing, but rather a Nix language thing.