Hi 👋

• Benjamin Meixner
• BBE @ WU Wien
• Computer Science @ Uni Wien

Get The Slides 📯

github.com/maixnor/talks

Disclaimer 🚧

Some viewers might experience discomfort when being shown too much terminal content. Should you experience nausea, headaches or the urge to use a terminal yourself please seek professional attention.

1. OS specifics 🖥️

2. Some Goodies 🍭

nix vs nix vs nix ☢️

• nix packages
• NixOS
• nix package manager
• nix lang

nixpkgs 📦

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs

Statistics 📈

https://repology.org/repositories/statistics/total

Restaurant vs Me 👩‍🍳

chaotic vs declarative

The

Operating System 🖥️

which isn't*


*but it is

Docker? 🐳

So many Files

Even more files!!

OS 🖥️

• Nix Store & Symlinks
• nixpkgs
• Ethereal Environments (shells)
• Flakes

Goodies 🍭

Options ❓

• services.serx
• services.ollama
• services.nextcloud

services.searx.enable = true;
services.searx.settings = {
  server.port = 6666;
  server.bind_address = "0.0.0.0";
  server.secret_key = "definetelysecret";
};

services.ollama = {
  enable = true;
  acceleration = "cuda"; #cuda drivers
  environmentVariables = {
    HOME = "/tmp/ollama";
    FLAKE = "/home/maixnor/repo/dotfiles";
  };
};

services.nextcloud = { # shortened for presentation
  package = pkgs.nextcloud27;
  configureRedis = true;
  maxUploadSize = "1G";
  config.dbtype = "pgsql";
  extraApps = with config.services.nextcloud.package.packages.apps; {
    inherit news contacts calendar tasks onlyoffice notes deck;
  };
};
services.onlyoffice = {
  enable = true;
  hostname = "localhost";
};

LEGACY 🧑‍🌾

LEGACY 🧑‍🌾 vs TOMORROW 👩‍🎓

• java 8 vs java 22
• javafx vs spring

Automate the World ⚗️

anywhere, anytime 🏔️

Goodies & Tools 🍬

• Options
• legacy
• Tests
• nixos-anywhere

Inspiration

• https://www.youtube.com/@noboilderplate
• https://www.youtube.com/@vimjoyer
• https://www.youtube.com/@IogaMaster
• what nix can do (docker doesn't) 2h talk
• https://github.com/nix-community/awesome-nix

Resources

• https://search.nixos.org
• https://mynixos.com
• https://discourse.nixos.org
• https://github.com/nix-community

Stuff I

• nixvim
• disko & impermanence
• stylix
• NUR

Stuff II

• mineflake
• plasma-manager
• raspberry-pi-nix
• nix-on-droid
• terraform-nixos
• nix-index