| 24 Aug 2021 |
 David Arnold (blaggacao) | I'd say, this statement is an instance of "extending a hand". It has more meaning to some and close to none to others. | 12:41:12 |
| David Arnold (blaggacao) | * I'd say, the foundation statement is an instance of "extending a hand". It has more meaning to some and close to none to others. | 12:41:49 |
| 25 Aug 2021 |
 davidak | fiona, a well known person in the chaos computer club community, created a nixos related poll in the fediverse. 40 people participated in 1 day
a comment: NixOS seems to have more users than I expected.
https://chaos.social/@vidister/106812902217821420 | 17:51:28 |
| davidak | the poll result might also be unexpected | 17:52:13 |
| davidak | or maybe people don't use nixos and just want to see the result and vote for the last option | 17:53:42 |
| davidak | but the poll shows that more people use nixos-unstable than the stable release | 17:54:15 |
 andi- | Well on your computer. I am not surprised at all. People like Arch and such because they are a rolling release and up2date. If the poll asked "what nixos version are you running on your criticial production servers" it might end up differently. | 21:23:20 |
 samueldr | staging | 21:23:50 |
| andi- | pre-staging? :D | 22:18:33 |
 jonringer | In reply to @andi:kack.it
pre-staging? :D random staging PRs :) | 22:20:28 |
| samueldr | the largest subset of mergeable PRs on top of staging | 22:21:00 |
| samueldr | * the largest subset of mergeable open PRs on top of staging | 22:21:15 |
 ryantm | https://discourse.nixos.org/t/trying-distro-without-installing/14694/6?u=ryantm | 23:58:47 |
| ryantm | Why do we recommend the Gnome ISO? | 23:59:04 |
| samueldr | because there's a browser in a graphical environment | 23:59:41 |
| 26 Aug 2021 |
| samueldr | it's not the GNOME ISO that is recommended, but a graphical ISO really | 00:00:07 |
| andi- | What else is expected? A graphical tour through NixOS? | 00:00:20 |
| samueldr | please | 00:00:35 |
| samueldr | nah, but not every users has multiple machines around... | 00:01:04 |
| samueldr | ... though I forgot that smartphones are a thing now | 00:01:10 |
| ryantm | Maybe just a manual link and terminal link in the dock? | 00:01:36 |
| samueldr | when I first installed Linux I only had one computer, no fancy shmancy alternatives to access the internet | 00:01:39 |
| andi- | I don't know what the user did expect. The thread is titled "trying out" | 00:01:43 |
| ryantm | It used to have desktop icons linking to these before gnome killed desktop icons. | 00:02:41 |
| samueldr |
whenever i select it as my boot drive it takes me directly to an install screen.
| 00:03:29 |
| andi- | ok, I noticed on the Fedora34 installer that I wasn't getting the Gnome tour but instead an installer popup or something like that. | 00:03:31 |
| samueldr | I'm confused | 00:03:43 |
| davidak | other distros have a graphical installer... and you can choose between installing or trying out the live environment. on nixos you are just lost | 01:08:34 |
| davidak | https://chaos.social/@davidak/106824627029097162 | 22:19:48 |
| 28 Aug 2021 |
 matthewcroughan - nix.zone | I've produced the following video, which might be helpful for some. https://youtu.be/OV2hi8b5t48 | 01:43:12 |
