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| 17 Mar 2025 |
 balanced_design | Could nixOS on WSL ever match the state of nixOS not on WSL? Or is it inherently doomed to be behind/outdated in many ways? | 05:26:24 |
 K900 | It's mostly already there really? | 05:27:10 |
| K900 | WSL is just a VM with extra steps | 05:27:14 |
| K900 | It can run a perfectly vanilla NixOS | 05:27:22 |
| balanced_design | Isnt the nicOS version behind? | 05:28:33 |
| balanced_design | * Isnt the nixOS version behind? | 05:28:40 |
| balanced_design | Another way to ask is can nixOS on WSL ever have the same behavior and packages available to it that an up-to-date unstable channel nixOS on a VPS or server box has? | 05:29:28 |
| K900 | It's ot | 05:29:39 |
| K900 | * It's not | 05:29:40 |
| K900 | We support 24.11, which is latest stable | 05:29:51 |
| K900 | And unstable, which is really rolling | 05:29:58 |
| K900 | Doesn't really get newer than that | 05:30:06 |
| balanced_design | Well thats good to hear. | 05:30:59 |
| K900 | Most of the issues we've got are really specific to the WSL glue | 05:31:25 |
| K900 | Like the way they set up graphics drivers doesn't work great with NixOS and that's not really something we can do much about | 05:31:41 |
| balanced_design | Is there something you recomend for prerequisite knowledge? I get errors when I try to follow almost any docs, form answer, or blog tutorial. So I try to research each aspect of the terms they use and code tokens they use... and I just struggle so much to find any info.
I just dont know how to actually progress with nixOS smoothly... Its molasses compared to anything else. | 05:44:41 |
| K900 | The state of the docs is ... generally not great | 05:46:19 |
| K900 | That's not really a WSL issue | 05:46:22 |
| K900 | If you have specific questions, feel free to ask here or in #Nix / NixOS | 05:46:34 |
 nzbr (they/it) | The docs for most NisOS things do unfortunately leave a lot to be desired | 05:46:43 |
| balanced_design | Is this really supposed to be what I do? Ask detailed questions each step of the way? | 05:57:54 |
| K900 | I mean | 05:58:12 |
| K900 | "Supposed to"? Probably not | 05:58:16 |
| K900 | But the docs aren't great | 05:58:23 |
| K900 | And that's not something you can really fix in a day | 05:58:35 |
| K900 | And by asking questions you'll hopefully learn how to find answers yourself | 05:58:47 |
| nzbr (they/it) | Without knowing where you're stuck right now, some general advice I can give you: Once you get the hang of the syntax and nix itself, you can get by with https://search.nixos.org pretty well for most things. Other than that, try to read and understand code others wrote that does something similar to what you need (don't just copy/paste that blindly, try playing around with it a bit) | 06:01:27 |
| nzbr (they/it) | The search also links to the file where the option you're looking at is defined. That can help you understand what happpens in the background | 06:02:33 |
