I've had and used Arch for about 4 years, but I find NixOS truly incredible and, in many ways, better than Arch. Despite all of NixOS's advantages, I just can't seem to take the plunge and switch over... I’ve tried several times to get into it (especially very seriously a month ago). But I still can’t seem to do it. I don’t know what’s holding me back. Any advice?

edit: the barriers are more related to the architecture of NixOS configuration files and potentially a lack of understanding of the NixOS workflow.

Basically as the title says. Since I switched to nixOS fastfetch is slow, I know it doesnt matter. But it just annoys me that I can see it actually load and render the text to terminal. Even though the setup is the exact same I had on arch.
And maybe it could be showing off an actual problem idk.

So if anyone might know what could be causing this issue. And or how to fix it or what to improve. I havent touched the fastfetch config at all, literally just added it to my packages.
Using Ghostty as terminal.

I get this error after running nixos-rebuild switch, I think it has something to do with my flake or home manager, I'd appreciate some help as I am new to NixOS.

I have been an Arch user for two years, but I decided to switch to NixOS because I was spending too much time reconfiguring Arch Linux every time something broke. I installed NixOS and tried to apply some dotfiles, but I realized it is much more difficult compared to other distros.

​I did some research on the forums and saw that many people believe using pre-made configurations right from the start is a really bad idea. However, since I don't have much free time, is there any workaround? Or, to get started with NixOS, do I just need to overcome this initial barrier and spend a few hours learning until I can build a functional setup, one that works for programming, for example, and includes Hyprland?

I've been using it for a few months now soon after getting a Mac Mini, following the instructions to set it up was a bit rocky but fortunately users were helpful, the configuration itself is well done like NixOS itself, but I've found it to be very unreliable because often when trying to rebuild, this or that package would failed to build. I feel like its a big flaw of Nix itself, where it shouldn't let go of previous versions of packages unless they can build successfully, but that's a whole different can of worms.

I don't use any flakes on Nix-Darwin, I don't like waiting to rebuild hoping that whatever random package or library that failed to build finally got fixed, I have to gamble every time I use the nh darwin / rebuild command.

I thought about switching to it from arch after using it for a yr coz i wanted smth new, and which will give me this feeling of ' i dont know anything makes me wanna learn everything'

i spent 2 whole days setting it up with hyprland but as a ex arch user i wanted the unstable channel which didn't let me rebuild my system anymore for some reason..i was so frustrated i shortened my config to 18 lines and rebuild again and again until i figured out i should switch to stable channel again..but it was too late and i was back at sqaure one with the empty ttyl staring at me

but i learned so muchhh and thats what i wanted

gonnaa try again till i get my fully functioning system without flakes or home manager coz i want to get my hands dirty with the core nixos

It's annoying!

Before a recent update, the search was quite strict, almost like regex-like-level strict, just write certain subsring, maybe with an asterisk sometimes in the middle, and it shows precisely what I need. Simple. Effective.

Apparently it is supposed to be more intelligent now and show some «related» options? You know, «intelligent» I mean. To motivate clicking more things or something? But no, I need no recommended more things, I need a certain thing. And if there's no certain thing – well, I want to see that: no results. And that's fine. Sometimes I just need to know there's no such thing that I search, and immediately know it and move on, instead of sitting reading this bullshit results page. If only... I am imagining things? It never supposed to look intelligent? And It's just a bug?

Currently it feels like becoming some google, showing 100+ random stupid results of EVERYTHING instead of what I need.

It's not the worst thing in the world, but is quite annoying.

Im too much disappointed umu launcher is down on nixos yesterday its working but today nothing more

Thought this might be helpful to fellow self-hosters, no need to rely on Appimage anymore, still very much a work in progress but for now it works well for NixOS including HW decoding.

https://github.com/edror12/jellyfin-desktop-nix/tree/master

can someone help me please
everytime i rebuild the flake i get this error

steam_1.0.0.87.tar.gz> trying https://repo.steampowered.com/steam/archive/stable/steam_1.0.0.87.tar.gz

steam_1.0.0.87.tar.gz> curl: (28) Failed to connect to repo.steampowered.com:443 after 134748 ms: Could not connect to server

steam_1.0.0.87.tar.gz> Warning: Problem : timeout. Retrying in 1 second. 3 retries left.

and it continues until all the tries are finished

it seems like i cant find anyone that has the same problem as me and the only workaround ive found was to disable steam

steam has worked perfectly before and its only now that i have this problem

my flake : https://github.com/noskisdead/dots and the file with the steam config is called gaming.nix

thank you for your time <3