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Tom Alexander
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Tom Alexander
8dbfc338be Add "Why I use NixOS" post.
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42fce46098 Fix capitalization of distributions.
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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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#+OPTIONS: html-postamble:nil
#+title: Why I use NixOS
#+date: <2025-02-21 Fri>
#+author: Tom Alexander
#+email:
#+language: en
#+select_tags: export
#+exclude_tags: noexport
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]]