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What exactly is the use case of NixOS? (piefed.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by to c/linuxquestions@lemmy.zip
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I'm an Arch user (CachyOS now) and I've gotten used to doing things a certain way. Anyway, I have another computer with a fresh Windows 11 install. After literally 5 hours of troubleshooting, I still could not get the fuckass wi-fi drivers installed. People who say Windows is easy clearly never had to install it. I eventually said fuck it and decided to install NixOS. I'm used to Arch based distros so I wanted to try something new. I'm very confused about how it works and what it's intended use case is. I spent an hour trying to figure out how to install micro permanently. I did RTFM but It didn't really help. I guess I'm hoping someone can share some words of encouragement and/or convince and/or bully me into sticking with this weird ass distro.

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[–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

/etc/nixos config file . fill it in and run nixos rebuild switch and that becomes your new default system.

https://search.nixos.org/packages

This link helps you find packages, and the options give you the command to add to your config, install it adhoc or install into the current session.

If you have a broadcom WiFi card you may need to add a few lines to your hardware config, but normally you don't touch it.

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