So far I have to say that my nixos experience is underwhelming. Particularly the utter lack of any installer to make it easier to get started. Does anyone know of a nixos installer which can do EFI boot, FDE, LVM, etc. ?
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I managed to do EFI and LVM but I did have to relearn the LVM commands to do it. Even a shell wrapper with dialog would be a vast improvement
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Replying to @jogbert
Yeah, I feel like I've done my dues with linux-from-scratch so many times that I simply just don't want to do it all by hand, especially if it'd be over-and-over in experiments to find what I want.

Mar 28, 2021 ยท 1:24 PM UTC

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Replying to @dsilverstone @jogbert
I suppose in some senses I'm utterly spoiled by the Debian installer. I get the feeling that from a scriptable-PoV nixos will be lovely, but from an "I want to setup a laptop with a reasonable default so I can experiment" it's a pig.
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Replying to @dsilverstone
Right, same here. It's the same thing that put me off trying Arch. That and both pacman and nix-env are very rpm-like in their usage :-/
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I'm going to make the effort to *try* on a real laptop if this x201's battery will take some charge, but I don't yet have any warm fuzzies.