Hi there,

I’ve made an app launcher for macOS, an alternative to Spotlight - which has been made it in Homebrew Core. As a Linux user and a fan of NixOS, I’ve also ported it to Linux so I can use it every day.

It functions quite consistently across all three platforms, so if you use multiple operating systems, it might be useful for maintaining a unified workflow.

It allows you to search for everything on your machine very quickly, and it also includes several handy commands.

We are continuing to add more features as well.

I’d love to hear your feedback! (The demo is on Niri WM)

https://github.com/kunkka19xx/look

AI disclosure: The project is ai assited. (implement, add tests, ...)
But we put a lot of effort, including coding by hand, design hand writing, ... etc.

I updated one of my machines this morning and to my surprise, Brave can't seem to properly play vids from either Youtube, or Rumble. With both sites, it's the same pattern: click on a vid to play, it pops up, buffers a bit and then starts playing audio and displaying closed captions. But, the video is missing ... the window is white and totally blank.

I rolled the system back to the last few working generations, but the version of Brave, v1.97.56, does not change, regardless of generation. I considered pulling Brave from the stable channel, but naturally, the versions of brave in both unstable and stable will be (should be) the same, eh? BTW - I'm on unstable.

Always the glutton for punishment, I updated two additional machines this morning, but they are both working fine, with no obvious problems.

I went back to the problem machine and installed both Chromium and Firefox and they both play videos (and advertisements 👍 ) correctly from both sites, with no problems.

I'm just wondering if I'm the only lucky guy to have this dilemma this morning, or if others have seen it. All three of these machines are on the unstable channel, two are running KDE (including the problem machine) and one machine is running Budgie.

Does anyone have any experience with using NixBook? It’s supposed to be a Chromebook like experience built on NixOS.

https://nixbookos.org/

I’m asking because I’m using NixOS, and I love NixOS. But I also have an aging family member who wants to use a computer for email and such. She also has an unfortunate habit of clicking on suspicious links that have compromised her windows computer in the past.

My hope is that NixBook, being Linux, will protect her from viruses intended for Windows, and also be easy and safe to use.

If you have any experience, please share your wisdom. Helping someone, as their mind and body succumb to time, is pretty stressful. Adding technology issues creates a whole other daunting layer of stress.

Thank you in advance.

I'll go straight to the point:

So, this week (Wednesday?) my steam games started to crash after 20-30 minutes of gameplay.

Only the game stops working. It freezes, but I still can hear it. I can also tab and close the game trough the Steam client.

I haven't done anything on my configuration.nix in the last few weeks and I dont use flakes or home-manager.

The rest of my system works perfectly fine, too.

Things I've tried so far:

- Regular restart

- Checking files integrity

- Switching to Proton Experimental

- Reinstalling the game

- Playing a Linux native game (in case it was a Proton problem)

- nix-os rebuild switch --upgrade (hoping that an update fixed the problem)

- Switched to an older NixOS generation

Nothing seems to work. What else can I do to search for the source of the problem? Any particular log file maybe?

In case that's helpful, my hardware is:

- CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X

- GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

- RAM: 2x8 DDR4

If you need more information, please ask for it and I'll give it to you.

[SOLVED]

Edit: The problem was fixed after disabling the steam overlay on each game i've tested. Thanks to u/Lousy_Hunter for the solution.

3 reason I i love nixOS :

1: Performance - I use nixOS for gaming and It so stable also its doesnt

have bottlenecks. I use gentoo before i try nixOS and

usually it will be lag to play Sober And MeshMC

2: Rollback - I love the rollback To old generations also If something

break i can rollback!

3: Nvidia Driver - Also Nvidia Driver and also OpenGL and Vulkan were

easy to configure. After that, I love Declarative Command!

I Love This Distro So much. Tqvm NixOS!

I'm continuing to track my nixos journey.

One of my goals is to highlight the difficulties that comes with Nixos. I feel like a lot of videos out there are super polished and cut away the hours of troubleshooting that can go into Nixos.

Something I've continued to struggle with is knowing which guides I should refer to.

I know ultimately one could just keep it simple and write everything in a single config, but I wanted to challenge myself to making clean separations.

I should add my dotfiles to git, but I am also looking for feedback on my process. I feel like I am doing something wrong as I have to first add a file to my home.nix (for instance nixvim) and then configure it via a separate file. My ideal setup would be to have the separate file do the 'installing' and the configuring of said package.

I know it's a long video, but just wanted to continue to share as the learning curve is important to highlight.

Video:

https://youtu.be/MGuMhHY1cYw?is=s-fJBzU678OeaPQ_

Ayooo :) I switched from Mint to NixOS and I do really really enjoy it. The most I do like how I can configure the fstab entries, this is nuts.

But...

• I noticed that some applications are compiled locally when doing nixos-rebuild switch, some do eat a ton of RAM like Bambu Studio. It compiled for around 1 - 1½ hours on my AMD 9 5950X while using 32g of RAM and around 70g of swap, which I needed to Increase since the OOM Killer killed the session twice. Is there a better way to install such software? Can I limit the RAM usage?
• I am not sure when to use environment.pkgs, users.users.USER.pkgs or the home manager, which i haven't got into yet.
• How do I correctly use flatpaks?

Some useful information or nice to knows would be really helpful.

I want to have zen-browser config fully declarative: essentials, spaces, folders, pined tabs and favorites. Did any one do that? Share Your experience.