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BITKARROT | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +3 
 NIX - Are you using this? heard lots of talk about nix and nix bitcoin. curious if anyone here has used it and what their opinions are about it. 

Should I use it? and Why?

https://nixos.org/

https://nixbitcoin.org/
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arkinox | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I've been told that you can use it like Docker to run repos that might not otherwise work on various platforms for various reasons.
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Gigi | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 #asknostr 

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AVERAGE_GARY | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 chat.fedimint.org

Fedimint uses nix for lots. It’s wonderful. I don’t understand it completely. 

@Chris Guida is a good resource too.
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mads | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 @niftynei 👀
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niftynei | 11 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 ooooh!! try it! try it!
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LL62 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Check out Citadel Dispatch #108 🤠🤙
@ODELL
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BITKARROT | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
  I am zapping everyone TODAY who posts something useful about NIX. #asknostr

Tell me more about NIX!!

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AVERAGE_GARY | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Make sure you have at least 40GB of free space…
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felixzieger | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I am using nix as package + config manager on mac. It works pretty well for that https://github.com/felixzieger/nix-config

Haven't tried out nix bitcoin
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thekrg | 11 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Disclaimer: I'm a NixOS user, although I'm not the Nix expert.

Nix and NixOS are great, since they're a reproducible system. Unlike normal Linux distro everything( from Linux kernel, packages, desktop environment, network, etc. ) in Nix will be declared in configuration.nix file, that makes them reproducible. Learning Nix can be difficult, it require some of Linux, systemd, Bash knowledge, and the most difficult part is Nix language--the functional programming language, the foundation of NixOS and nix package manager. Also, Nix has poor documentations. But, I'm sure that Nix has a very nice community.

## Should you use it?
You should give it a try.

## Why?
Well here is what I believe: bitcoin is the sovereign money, but NixOS will be sovereign computer.

Try not to hang on the cliff.
https://github.com/gytis-ivaskevicius/high-quality-nix-content/blob/master/memes/nix-learning-curve.png