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| NixOS ❤️ systemd | 159 Servers |
| Sender | Message | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 26 Feb 2025 | ||
 K900 | We have a GUI installer? | 08:22:50 |
| K900 | Maybe we should advertise that more | 08:23:07 |
 Arian | Yes disko does the same. But it's not upstreamed yet. But I'm a bit more fan of repart's model | 08:23:52 |
| Arian | As it also runs during runtime. So can extend partitions etc. Add new ones | 08:24:28 |
| Arian | The repart stuff is in nixos. Disko is not. | 08:25:09 |
| Arian | Also Disko is not part of nixos-install | 08:25:18 |
| Arian | Nothing against the creators of Disko. But I want less shell code running during activation time not more. We've been on a slow but steady quest to replace all of activation scripts with systemd-native alternatives to support shipping nixos images that have no interpreters shipped whatsoever | 08:27:33 |
| Arian | So to me repart would be the natural first choice | 08:27:51 |
| Arian | But sleeping on it for a night the fstab generation is not that exciting lol. As we don't generate fstab at activation time. We generate it at build time already. Still think we should have a nice way of defining partitions and fileSystems in a single DSL though | 08:29:32 |
| Arian | * But sleeping on it for a night the fstab generation is not that exciting lol. As we don't generate fstab at activation time. We generate it at build time already. So we could just generate it from the repart nix options Still think we should have a nice way of defining partitions and fileSystems in a single DSL though | 08:29:55 |
 raf joined the room. | 13:53:50 | |
| raf | Hello, I would like to open a pull request to move systemd-resolved service ( Is there a specific process for such a change? | 13:56:56 |
| raf | Or can I go ahead with the pull request, and hope maintainers for the service are able to take a look? | 13:58:44 |
 Ramses 🇵🇸 | raf: just a PR should be fine | 15:10:59 |
| raf | I'll open one soon, thank you | 19:29:27 |
| 27 Feb 2025 | ||
 jasper joined the room. | 12:15:49 | |
| 28 Feb 2025 | ||
 jade_ | In reply to @arianvp:matrix.org given i just archlinux'd another nixos box today partitioning wise, i will say at least this flow is really nice, you do basically whatever you want and it spits out a config that works. the fact that our stuff is this good that you don't have to figure out how to describe zfs inside luks to a DSL is kinda nice in a sense. but also yeah. eugh. idk. having to discover how to tell the dsl to do the right thing is also hard. | 04:21:24 |
| jade_ | the fact that i can use the arch wiki and just type in some stuff and have it work is nice. but it is utterly goofy that our first chapter in the docs doesn't just say "use the graphical installer" | 04:22:05 |
| 1 Mar 2025 | ||
 emily | the graphical installer is very undermaintained and has a lot of rough edges | 13:45:15 |
| emily | it also kinda makes the learning curve even more vertical, since it creates an expectation that you might not immediately have to open a file with code in it and run terminal commands to do anything | 13:45:54 |
| emily | partitioning does suck though | 13:46:15 |
| Arian | in my utopic view clicking how to set up your partition scheme in the installer would then show you the nix code it generated. and then you can edit it in-place or hit "apply" | 13:59:09 |
| emily | yeah, would be cool. | 14:08:28 |
| emily | I personally don't think that pointy-clicky configuration is a market it makes sense for NixOS to target at all right now but partitioning is indeed uniquely annoying/fiddly | 14:09:31 |
| Arian | Yeh but if not point clicks at least not imperative | 14:12:48 |
 raitobezarius | In reply to @emilazy:matrix.orgI agree but also almost everyone I know starts by using the graphical installer | 14:32:55 |
| raitobezarius | which horrifies me | 14:32:57 |
| emily | yes, I mean it's very appealing | 14:33:44 |
| emily | I just think it gives a bad impression because as a graphical installer it's not very polished, and as a prelude to the "NixOS experience" it's incredibly misleading | 14:33:44 |
| emily | it's like we built a really ornate-looking stairs and door with a nice soft doormat but when you open it it falls off the hinges a little and then when you walk inside you immediately end up in a maintenance crawlspace | 14:34:16 |