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[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago

It's missing the fact that the nix store can be huge, even if garbage collected regularly. This prevents me from using nix on my Ubuntu laptop with limited HDD space.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

If you download a binary you can just steam-run it and it just works

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[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

For rollbacks, I've been using Timeshift in Mint, and it has worked brilliantly.

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I wonder why nobody has created a simple gui for Nixconfig.

[–] frozencow@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Someone has done just that: https://github.com/snowfallorg/nixos-conf-editor It is part of https://snowflakeos.org/, though I don't know about its developments atm.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

It's less simple than text because it actually takes more space to view the same amount of configs.

[–] ch8zer@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Something like this is really hard to make a gui for. I suppose a GUI would only be useful for discovering config values?

Either way, a gui would likely look like YAST on OpenSuse.

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