Intro to Flakes

Introduction to Nix Flakes. I go over what they are and why you would want to use them.
Also this is the last video from this batch so I should have fixed the text size and keyboard sound in the next lot of videos :).

[@chrisCore95]

Absolutely lovely tutorial! One potential improvement would be, in my case atleast, larger / zoomed in terminal. Its hard to see otherwise while watching on a phone. Keep on going, there is a lack of nixos videos!

[@drishalballaney6590]

and also idk if its just me, the volume is also kinda low tbh

[@darkarie]

for me the volume its good, but same with the terminal font size 😁

[@TheStuzenz]

Flakes look like they are really powerful. Thanks for the interesting tutorial.

[@GeorgeGriffithsJustG]

Can't wait for the future videos on the use of flakes - the suspense is killing me! I kid. superb job as always! :)

[@henrikstanleymortensen4295]

Yet another awesome video Wil.
Great intro to Flakes

[@arlisle]

IIRC the version 3.0 is reverted back to 2.4. So the 2.4 version is actually newer than the 3.0.

[@SamWhitlock]

Note for future folks watching: 21.05 and up (dropping tomorrow!) will have the flake command built in, so you don't need to do anything with the "experimental" cmdline stuff.

[@TheStuzenz]

Good to know - thanks! I am on 21.05, but added experimental in. I think it did give me some error if I didn't though. I ended up adding it to the configuration.nix
I will comment it out and check that it still works.
Thanks for letting me/us know.

[@richardjblackman]

@@TheStuzenz did it work for you? (it didn't for me)

[@v7494]

@@richardjblackman It will be built-in with Nix 2.4, which still hasn't released. The current version with 21.05 is 2.3.15

[@erectlocution]

For _other_ future folks watching, I'm using Nix 2.13.2 and `nix flake` is still "experimental". No bigs, just wanted to make sure newer folks like me didn't get confused.

[@luigigiunta2400]

Hey man running through your entire series of NIx videos and I'm about to be on your last, please make more videos! they are so informative and helpful as someone who runs Linux and is an IT Professional learning programming! Please make content again! Hope you see this!

[@darkarie]

really nice content, hope it keeps coming 😀

[@ian.moran11]

Awesome! Thanks Wil

[@designernasser]

2:23 I wish nix channels were more FLAKY 😬. Thanks wil for these videos, they are awesome!

[@maksimbronsky7117]

Thanks for the video as well.

[@crushonyoutoo]

Keep them coming, thanks

[@hoots187]

Great video, can you make any more of these tutorials?

[@Rdorigo98534]

nice content, but for me at least the audio could be louder.

[@SMOKE3104]

So I am still having trouble wrapping my head around the difference between Home Manager and Flakes. And if you can, please do an updated guide like the ones you did on flakes. If, of course, you want to..... no pressure....

[@wilfridtaylor]

Yeah I plan on doing more videos. I just started a new job which has delayed me a little bit. :)

[@diegonayalazo]

Thanks for sharing

[@darkarie]

thanks man!!

[@TheAsymmetrical]

Love the breakdown and your cadence.
however for the love of jesus I feel like you've shown me what my keyboard sounds like to other people, please consider some linear switches with some lube, I will personally subsidise it.

[@bernardoaraujor]

great content, but the sound capture setup needs improvement! I can hear your keystrokes louder than your voice

[@pmarreck]

Can someone fill me in on what happened when the nix command went to 3.0 and then got reverted back to 2.4 (or whatever) and has slowly climbed back to (checks console) 2.8.1?
I'm new to the Nix ecosystem and I feel like I have 10 years of drama and design changes to catch up on lol

[@Rundik]

Good video, but not eveone has a 100 inch monitor, so I recommend making things bigger for the recording.

[@junweidong2448]

I am new to flake. From the video, can I say that any thing in configuration.nix can be converted to flake.nix, then no need configuration.nix any longer?

[@bellawagner4410]

I think you need always a configuration.nix, but you can put the most things in to other things. But I’m not sure, maybe you can configure everything in a flake

[@junweidong2448]

@@bellawagner4410 If Flake could specify configuration to more details(like customized config to a certain app), then I would still prefer flake.

[@tiziano88]

Good tutorial, but the voice is too quiet and the keyboard noise is way too loud. Also the terminal is too small I hope you can improve your setup for future videos!

[@kexec.]

yeah even in max volume it's not easy to hear his voice. sizing up terminal font is also needed.