GNOME 3 works pretty well, but like many other things on NixOS it has a few quirks. For example, it does not auto-detect new apps until you restart GNOME shell. I wouldn't recommend NixOS to non-developers, our stable releases are still a lot less stable than Debian testing.
On Sat, Apr 9, 2016, at 09:07 PM, Saša Janiška wrote: > Hello, > > for some time I’m considering which Linux distro to use to have > relatively fresh packages as well as not to waste too much time for > admin work. > > Morever, it would be ideal to have same distro for the machine of my > relative’s to make it easier during trouble.shooting session. So, in > order to fulfill those two requirements I did consider to stay with > Debian (Sid) on my desktop and netbook machines, but put Debian Stable > on the machines of my relatives. > > However, after checking about NixOS which I tried many years ago, I’ve > concluded it’s the best option at the moment since I learnt that > nixos-stable might be good-enough for other’s machine requiring not much > admin time, while I can use nixos-unstable if stable channel is not > fresh–enough for my own needs. > > So, before jumping to install on real hardware - today I did install > under vbox, I’ve few questions… > > My desktop is i7 2.8G/16G machine having 1xTB+1x2TB disks which are > assembled in btrfs raid1 with / and /home as btrfs subvolumes (the > remaining 1TB is used for daily backups.) > > I’m delighted that NixOS provides ZFS as filesytem option since it was > one of the reasons why I was evaluating Free/PC-BSD option in the past. > > a) do you, in general, recommend using ZFS over Btrfs for NixOS desktop > machine? > > b) is ZFS good option even for single-disk netbook machine with 4G of > memory? > > c) can one use ZFS on root *without* usage of separate /boot partition? > I use same disk layout on Debian, but with btrfs and do not have any > experience with ZoL, although I’ve found that there is > ’boot.loader.grub.zfsSupport’ option? > > Any doc/tutorial explaining how to do such install? > > I’ve found: https://gist.github.com/vizanto/7374277 but wonder if it is > still relevant? > > There are of course few packages I do miss in NixOS, but everything else > is so great, so that I’m very enthusiastic to put NixOS on all my > relative’s machines very soon. > > On all machines, I plan to use GNOME3, so wonder if there are some > gotchas in regard - someone on #nixoes mentioned that GTK does not like > custom paths as used by Nix and recommended i3 instead which is, atm, > not option considering that other family members also use my machine and > relatives are not savvy-enough for that tiling wm. > > > Sincerely, > Gour > > -- > Therefore, without being attached to the fruits of activities, > one should act as a matter of duty, for by working without > attachment one attains the Supreme. > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev