Updated October 3, 2024
Updated with help from @poz and others who have reached out with suggestions.
I’ve now been using Nix, the package manager, fulltime on my personal machines since 2021. I run NixOS on my personal desktop/laptop and VMs, so I have some reasonable experience using it.
I really enjoy using Nix, and think it’s a very useful tool, but it definitely needs a lot of tweaking.
Today I want to share some of the config settings in Nix that most users probably want to change. The defaults that Nix uses for these settings don’t make that much sense to me, and most people who actually use Nix should probably consider changing them.
Any suggested changes since this was published a year prior?
Author here! Actually the first time I’ve ever seen anyone (other than myself) share a post of mine.
If there are any suggestions I’m happy to update it, as noted in the post I’ve had a few people reach out with improvements over the years. It seems like this post in particular is liked the search engines.
Author here! Actually the first time I’ve ever seen anyone (other than myself) share a post of mine.
If there are any suggestions I’m happy to update it, as noted in the post I’ve had a few people reach out with improvements over the years. It seems like this post in particular is liked the search engines.
Hello Patrick! Thanks for the writeup; gradually incorporating it into my config.
BTW, I recall reading a PR you started on fixing the fallback from failing substituters? This may be of interest to you: