| 23 Jul 2022 |
 Chris McDonough | but nixos makes that so easy | 18:03:10 |
 sjfloat | Totally. I was on Debian for many years, but I couldn't go back now. | 18:03:30 |
| Chris McDonough | i hear you, i was just talking with a sysadmin friend last night; i had turned him on to nixos a month prior and he's like what have you done to me, everything else is terrible :) | 18:04:12 |
| sjfloat | Yep | 18:05:29 |
| sjfloat | And he probably doesn't use it in his day job, either. | 18:05:56 |
| Chris McDonough | he cant. he works for the DoD lol | 18:06:08 |
| Chris McDonough | he's screwed | 18:06:11 |
| sjfloat | Ugh | 18:06:17 |
| 25 Jul 2022 |
|  eyes1238 joined the room. | 00:29:12 |
| eyes1238 | I've been on a quest for getting my music making setup back for some time, just on linux in general | 00:30:01 |
| eyes1238 | really glad to find a chat like this :) | 00:30:15 |
| eyes1238 | how's everyone else | 00:30:25 |
| eyes1238 | * how's everyone else's luck with vst emulation on nixos? any useful flakes or things i should know about? | 00:30:47 |
| sjfloat | I've not done a lot with that. Does it require wine or something? | 01:07:10 |
| sjfloat | I've stuck mainly to the usual LADSPA and LV2. | 01:08:36 |
| sjfloat | I'm interested in writing some of my own, probably with Faust. | 01:09:37 |
|  NixOS Moderation Bot joined the room. | 01:21:39 |
| eyes1238 | I use yabridge, which yes is wine based, and its incredibly easy to use on a normal distro | 01:25:03 |
| eyes1238 | harder on nixos... requires some environment variable fuckery | 01:25:21 |
| eyes1238 | it sets up a whole wine prefix in my nix store lol | 01:27:13 |
| sjfloat | Well, hopefully we can compare notes here and iron some of this stuff out. | 01:28:34 |
| sjfloat | And we should probably document our findings on the wiki. | 01:29:26 |
| eyes1238 | My system configuration has a neat module which I use for vst emulation: https://github.com/the-argus/nixsys/blob/main/user/argus/music/yabridge.nix | 01:31:38 |
| eyes1238 | I was just considering making it its own flake | 01:31:52 |
| eyes1238 | with nix, im often torn between a.) trying to make contributions to the wiki, or a PR to nixpkgs or whatever or b.) decentralized approach of just making my own flakes | 01:32:33 |
| sjfloat | Maybe a combination of both? | 01:40:19 |
| sjfloat | A collection of flakes would be cool | 01:41:36 |
| eyes1238 | Yeah, and then one meta flake that could be included, would be nice to have something as simple as proAudio.enable = true; in your nixos config | 01:44:17 |
| eyes1238 | i think i need to see more success before I contribute anything to the wiki though, as of right now I'm not actually making any music on my nix laptop | 01:45:13 |
| sjfloat | I think that even stubbing some of this out on the wiki would give hope to some frustrated people. | 12:19:21 |
