| 23 Feb 2023 |
 evils | i'm hoping the cookies lure in not just prospective Nixers | 17:19:24 |
 @linus:schreibt.jetzt | Fair enough. You can probably find more stories like that by asking around. Feel free to cite mine ;) | 17:19:27 |
| @linus:schreibt.jetzt | You don't need to sell them as your own of course | 17:20:04 |
| evils | main issue with not being familiar with the IT landscape is that i'm unaware of all the flaws with vagrant or whatever, so i tend to take people at their word when they say it works for them | 17:21:46 |
| evils | ofc, i assume they know plenty that's wrong with it
but i know plenty that's wrong with Nix xD | 17:22:09 |
| @linus:schreibt.jetzt | Then maybe you should run it together with someone else who does have that experience | 17:22:21 |
| evils | definitely the hope :) | 17:22:33 |
| evils | there's some local Nixers i'm going to try and recruit on the nix.party event | 17:23:04 |
| @linus:schreibt.jetzt | My favourite three-second pitch for Nix is "it fixes the works-on-my-machine problem" | 17:23:08 |
| evils | the guy that introduced me to Nix doesn't like that one, can't recall why | 17:23:43 |
| evils | also, so does docker | 17:23:49 |
| evils | nix solves the "it no longer works on your machine" xD | 17:24:04 |
| evils | anyway, here's some very rough thoughts written down
https://gitlab.com/evils/talk-of-nix | 17:25:07 |
| @linus:schreibt.jetzt | In reply to @evils:nixos.dev
also, so does docker Not at the stage where you're creating your image | 17:25:12 |
| evils | elevator pitches for Nix are really tricky...
ideally i'd have a one page handout that has at least some point of interest for most users | 17:25:53 |
| evils | but condensing all the cool features of the Nix ecosystem down to a single page... | 17:26:34 |
| evils | clearly, we need this, but for getting started with Nix
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/what_if_2_flowchart.png | 17:31:23 |
 davidak | FYI: the german linuxhotel offers courses for nix and nixos now
https://linuxhotel.social/@linuxhotel/109915288235813145
maybe we could promote commercial trainings on the website | 21:03:28 |
| davidak | i think their description of nix and nixos is in some ways better than our own on the website
NixOS is the largest GNU/Linux distribution in the world in terms of the number and up-to-date status of its installable packages, and made GitHub's Top10 (by contributors) for the first time in 2022.
End users enjoy easy access to about 80,000 packages whose package specifications are reproducible and portable, so that the same package can be installed on different operating systems.
(translated to english)
| 21:06:52 |
 hexa | teacher is tfc | 23:43:36 |
| hexa | * person teaching this course is tfc | 23:43:45 |
| 24 Feb 2023 |
 tea | Redacted or Malformed Event | 06:04:43 |
| 28 Feb 2023 |
|  @bootstrapper:matrix.org joined the room. | 05:42:55 |
| 1 Mar 2023 |
 tomberek | i guess i'm late??? | 20:34:43 |
 Bryan Honof | Oh my, no. I've just lost track of time. Me and garbas set up the streamyard for tomorrow though. | 20:40:45 |
 garbas | damn. i've fall asleep while putting kids to bed. You maybe still around? | 22:35:16 |
| 2 Mar 2023 |
 matthewcroughan | But you seem to have succeeded in putting yourself to bed, which is very important 😄 | 08:22:19 |
| matthewcroughan | garbas: | 08:22:29 |
| garbas | :) | 08:22:53 |
| garbas | I'm sometimes wondering who is putting who to sleep | 08:23:09 |
