What is more separated from the system? distrobox or nix? I want to play Ruffle, which doesn't have

What is more separated from the system? distrobox or nix?

I want to play Ruffle, which doesn't have flatpak yet, so I'm considering anything but layering

fiftydinarOP•8/30/23, 10:10 PM

And it's avaliable on Arch & nix repository

Ffiftydinar What is more separated from the system? distrobox or nix? I want to play Ruffle...

dreamyuki•8/30/23, 10:10 PM

distrobox is basically podman/docker container with shell script wrapper

dreamyuki•8/30/23, 10:10 PM

meanwhile nix is not a container

fiftydinarOP•8/30/23, 10:11 PM

I will use distrobox, thanks

j0rge•8/30/23, 10:12 PM

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Kyle Gospo•8/30/23, 10:13 PM

I want their little guy as an emoji

Kyle Gospo•8/30/23, 10:13 PM

fedora deck

Ttryhardsoccermomswag so it would be `nix profile install nixpkgs#<package>`

Vosian•8/30/23, 10:14 PM

This is what worked for me.

Ddreamyuki meanwhile nix is not a container

akdev•8/30/23, 10:16 PM

There is a nix container tho

akdev•8/30/23, 10:16 PM

HL2 RTX is real?

Aakdev HL2 RTX is real?

dreamyuki•8/30/23, 10:17 PM

community mod

Vosian•8/30/23, 10:17 PM

I'd prefer to run as many packages as I can via nix instead of distrobox, precisely because they avoid the container overlay, but I was able to get the theming/cursor issues to be consistent between bazzite and apps in a fedora container by basically installing kde on the container using

sudo dnf groupinstall "KDE Plasma Workspaces"

sudo dnf groupinstall "KDE Plasma Workspaces"

That may be overkill though.

Vosian•8/30/23, 10:17 PM

I'd certainly like to get the cursor to work with straight nix on bazzite, but I'm not sure what I need to install for that. I've tried a bunch of things, but nothing's worked so far.

VVosian I'd prefer to run as many packages as I can via nix instead of distrobox, precis...

Kyle Gospo•8/30/23, 10:17 PM

you can also add /usr/share/icons and /usr/share/themes as volumes to distrobox

Kyle Gospo•8/30/23, 10:17 PM

that's what bazzite-arch does

Kyle Gospo•8/30/23, 10:18 PM

then it's 100% consistent

Vosian•8/30/23, 10:18 PM

Oh. that's nice.

Ttryhardsoccermomswag so it would be `nix profile install nixpkgs#<package>`

dreamyuki•8/30/23, 10:18 PM

thanks for the guide
i have no idea how to use nix profile

tryhardsoccermomswag•8/30/23, 10:18 PM

~~neither do i lol~~

KKyle Gospo you can also add /usr/share/icons and /usr/share/themes as volumes to distrobox

Vosian•8/30/23, 10:18 PM

If there was a way to do that with directly nix packages, that would be great.

Vosian•8/30/23, 10:23 PM

@nickname will the documentation for the nix profile stuff be going here - https://universal-blue.org/images/bazzite/FAQ/#nix? Or somewhere else?

FAQ - Universal Blue

Custom Operating System images based on Fedora

VVosian @nickname will the documentation for the nix profile stuff be going here - https...

tryhardsoccermomswag•8/30/23, 10:25 PM

yup

tryhardsoccermomswag•8/30/23, 10:25 PM

it should be fixed now as soon as it gets the OK

Jj0rge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSrHeJAgJwg&t=487s

Valerie•8/30/23, 10:40 PM

We need a bazzite bascot

Valerie•8/30/23, 10:40 PM

bascot

Valerie•8/30/23, 10:40 PM

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/963557221478850610.webp?size=48&name=kek%7E2&quality=lossless

EyeCantCU•8/30/23, 10:41 PM

Bazzcot

Ttryhardsoccermomswag ~~neither do i lol~~

dreamyuki•8/30/23, 10:43 PM

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/101101

GitHub

Nixpkgs config (e.g. allowUnfree) when using `nix profile` · Issue ...

When using the new flakes interface, e.g. nix profile, the nixpkgs configuration in ~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix is ignored due to hermetic evaluation, so, e.g. it is not clear to me how to install...

dreamyuki•8/30/23, 10:43 PM

maybe you need to mentioned this

tryhardsoccermomswag•8/30/23, 10:43 PM

omg

tryhardsoccermomswag•8/30/23, 10:44 PM

apologies to the nix cult but this is ridiculous stuff

EyeCantCU•8/30/23, 10:45 PM

Alex&Indie•8/30/23, 10:46 PM

emudeck wanna be this channel so badly

Kyle Gospo•8/30/23, 10:47 PM

oo that's cool

Kyle Gospo•8/30/23, 10:47 PM

I'll have to join over there

tryhardsoccermomswag•8/30/23, 10:49 PM

thats really cool

Ddreamyuki https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/101101

tryhardsoccermomswag•8/30/23, 10:50 PM

so it's

NIXPKGS_ALLOW_UNFREE=1 nix profile install --impure nixpkgs#<package>

NIXPKGS_ALLOW_UNFREE=1 nix profile install --impure nixpkgs#<package>

tryhardsoccermomswag•8/30/23, 10:50 PM

at this rate i almost feel like removing it from the FAQ lol

Ttryhardsoccermomswag so it's `NIXPKGS_ALLOW_UNFREE=1 nix profile install --impure nixpkgs#<package>`

dreamyuki•8/30/23, 10:51 PM

https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/749925

Unix & Linux Stack Exchange

Nix desktop files

When I install a GUI application using nix, I see desktop files end inside ~/.nix-profile directory, e.g:

~/.nix-profile/share/applications/firefox.desktop

However, my desktop expect that files t...