This may be an unusual thing but I realised that use nix run a lot instead of putting the package in my nixos configuration. It’s often on packages I run at most once every 3 days
Am I the only one that does that?
This may be an unusual thing but I realised that use nix run a lot instead of putting the package in my nixos configuration. It’s often on packages I run at most once every 3 days
Am I the only one that does that?
I actually use it to run krita, prism launcher when the Minecraft mood peek in, inkscape, MusicBrainz picard, Alistral, peazips, libre Office.
Aka, anything that I don’t use enough to warrant opening my config and adding them in (and forgetting when I do open my config.
Although krita is currently being installed through flatpack because nixpkgs ship broken alpha versions…
Ah for these tools I went full all in on home manager! But nothing wrong with a nix run if it works!
I never tried flatpacks on nixos, curious idea! Might solve the one or other flake hack I have :D thanks!
Personally I find home manager really hard to use. The documentation is really bad, and I never find what want… Nor what’s possible. I don’t use it because I don’t want to, just I don’t know how to
It was that or spaghetti an override and compile krita from scratch. So I chose the lazy way
That’s funny. I also use it (semi-)regularly for Krita, Inkscape, MusicBrainz Picard, LibreOffice, and well, not Prism Launcher but Luanti.
I also have GIMP and some other games in the rotation.
My metric is kind of that if I don’t use a piece of software as often as I update my system, then it’s not really worth including into the system updates. Of course, I also have to not mind waiting for it to be installed, when I do want to use it.