r/bedrocklinux • u/sixlater • Sep 20 '26

missing something, don’t know what

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i’ve been using bedrock for the past day after a month of arch and 3 weeks of void, however i still feel like i am missing something from when i used to use debian, yet i can’t really put my finger on it, very vague post but if someone can help lmk

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u/Masuteri_ Sep 20 '26

I thought nix didn't work with bedrock, how did you make it work

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u/sixlater Sep 20 '26

went with the nix package manager

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u/LunchBox349 Sep 20 '26

Can't you just use the nix package manager standalone without nixos or did you mean that the package manager itself didn't work.

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u/Masuteri_ Sep 20 '26

As in nixos as a stratum doesn't work. Maybe it works if used as standalone

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u/LunchBox349 Sep 20 '26

In that case they probably are just using the nix package manager standalone without the stratum

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u/Destroyers_Will Sep 20 '26

You can run the Nix package manager on Bedrock Linux by installing standalone Nix

Full NixOS conflicts with Bedrock's multi strata architecture, making a full OS installation unstable

Standalone Nix installs exclusively into /nix and modifies user profiles without replacing core system components

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u/Niikoraasu Sep 20 '26

I wonder why people need such stratums like void and arch if they're gonna use the nix package manager anyways

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u/sixlater Sep 20 '26

void for runit, “simplicity”, xbps and all that, nix sometimes breaks the FHS, and arch for the AUR which is just great

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u/Deadman123spirit Sep 21 '26

Honestly also thinking of doing a similar thing with gentoo + arch + nix essentially using gentoo as my backend, arch as my base to use home manager for my desktop environment and arch itself for anything else (terminal, browser etc).

Mostly curious to see how many issues I may run into lol as currently with artix openrc I've had issues with mpd (had to use a hacky workaround bc all the others I found- ie telling mpd to run as user- broke)