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Hey. I'm a new NixOS user, already trying to heavily use the documentation. :) Someone pointed out to me that there's two wikis, with a difference. I've been looking at the NixOS manual, but had missed at least this.

Now I'm looking for glossaries. Is this the best we have? https://nix.dev/manual/nix/2.23/glossary.html#gloss-store-derivation

I could perhaps contribute (as in I can make a PR) by... Hm. My initial idea would be to at least

  1. Sort it; now it's hard to find anything in it
  2. I actually think that page could use a TOC. Or some kind of a layout change, I'm not sure. Now if I want to find something on it, my best bet is to do a search in browser, and that hits other mentions of the word.

Also I feel it's missing quite a few pieces of terminology that I've run into a lot the past few days. I think at least module, option, store, package, flake, home manager.

Then I don't know what of those are Nix and what are NixOS. Is there a hard split between "Nix documentation" and "NixOS documentation"? (Though if we expect a newcomer to know which manual to look in, maybe that's a problem in itself?)

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