NixFriend: Umm, sorry you're going to need to open your terminal and change your nix-channels to https://channels.nixos.org/nixos-26.06 and you're going to need to do it under sudo.

user: umm, ok, now i'm upgraded?

NixFriend: no, not quite, you need nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade

user: ohh jeeze, ok. umm, i got an error, a couple hundred lines it's kind of vague about a bunch of functions failing

NixFriend: Go back up 70-80 lines and see if it calls out a certain package being a problem, just ignore all the messages about variables not being set.

user: ohh wow, yeah, ok, something about pinentry and specifying ncurses and some messages about name deprecation

NixFriend: ohh yeah ok, that's pretty easy, go edit these text files, change all the names if mentions and either remove pinentry or just make or leave in pinentry-ncurses

user: Ohh ok; Now it's complaing that /boot is full

[–] Fijxu@programming.dev 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

lol yeah Nix is definitely not for everyone, but an insane flexible tool when you know how to use it.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 months ago

My favorite part is syncing one file and my home folder and moving from one computer to another seamlessly.

I've moved hardware three times and always been right back in service.

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