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The Book of NixOS: The Most Comprehensive Manual About Reproducible Builds and Declarative Configuration
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Among the topics covered are:
- "Advanced basics" of the Nix expression language
- What do cryptic vars like
lib,config, etc. mean at the top of a.nixfile - Hitchhiker's guide to the Nix ecosystem
- Overview of Nix architecture
- Installing NixOS
- Using Flakes
- Channels vs Overlays vs Overrides
- Binary Caches and Remote Builders
- Nix Modules and writing your own
- Having ecnrypted root volumes
- Adding homemanager and using it for VSCode configuration
- Using NixOS for development environments
- Different development strategies: Rust, TypeScript & Node, Python, Go
- Integrating tooling that you are used to without NixOS: livereload functionality, short compilation times, all the language's packages out there
- Data Science and AI Research environments with Python
- Community-developed tools and utilities for NixOS which would make your life simpler
- Installing pre-compiled binaries as parts of NixOS configuration
- One codebase as single source of truth configuration for different nix-enabled hosts
- Rocking Wayland as daily driver
- Containerizing apps the NixOS way
- Nix-enabled Linux and MacOS with declarative management
- Reducing build times and storage usage
- Hardware drivers that simply just work, incl. CUDA and GPU Pass-through
- Multiple monitor setup
- Gaming, of course