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#+date: <2023-12-23 Sat>
#+author: Tom Alexander
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Links:
- My personal repos: [[https://code.fizz.buzz/explore/repos][code.fizz.buzz]]
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-alexander-b6a18216/
- GitHub: https://github.com/tomalexander
- Resume: https://fizz.buzz/tom_alexander_resume.pdf
- PGP Key: https://fizz.buzz/pgp.asc

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We will be solving these by creating a ~.desktop~ file, introducing nixGL, and writing a wrapper script that makes sm64ex launch from within steam gaming mode properly.
* Adding nixGL
If we were running NixOS, graphical programs would work out-of-the-box. Unfortunately on other Linux distributions, we need to wrap our graphical programs so they know where to find the graphics drivers. To perform this wrapping, we will use [[https://github.com/nix-community/nixGL][nixGL]]. To install nixGL we need to add it as an input in our ~flake.nix~, apply its overlay, and add it as an ~extraSpecialArgs~ to have it automatically passed into each module:
If we were running NixOS, graphical programs would work out-of-the-box. Unfortunately on other Linux Distributions, we need to wrap our graphical programs so they know where to find the graphics drivers. To perform this wrapping, we will use [[https://github.com/nix-community/nixGL][nixGL]]. To install nixGL we need to add it as an input in our ~flake.nix~, apply its overlay, and add it as an ~extraSpecialArgs~ to have it automatically passed into each module:
#+begin_src nix
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#+title: Why I use NixOS
#+date: <2025-02-21 Fri>
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This is just a list of situations in which classic Linux distributions have failed me, whereas NixOS would not.
* Package version conflicts
** gsutil on Arch Linux [2025-02-21 Fri]
[[./files/20250221_gsutil.png]]
** NodeJS on Arch Linux [2025-02-21 Fri]
[[./files/20250221_nodejs.png]]