[Nix-dev] Real documentation, aka "Let's kill the wiki"

Anand Patil anand.prabhakar.patil at gmail.com
Sat Nov 28 02:07:46 CET 2015


I did, and it's a terrific resource for learning the Nix language. In my
experience, the pills were helpful at an earlier stage. Before writing any
Nix myself beyond copying & pasting into my configuration.nix, I needed to
develop a basic understanding of how NixOS works & how to use it.

On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 12:12 AM Joachim Schiele <js at lastlog.de> wrote:

> did you have a look at https://nixcloud.io/tour/?id=1 already?
>
> On 27.11.2015 22:40, Anand Patil wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I've been learning NixOS over the last few days, and Luca Bruno's NixOS
> > pills
> > series,
> http://lethalman.blogspot.com/2014/07/nix-pill-1-why-you-should-give-it-try.html
> ,
> > have helped me progress much more quickly than I would have done without
> > them.
> >
> > It took me a surprisingly long time to find them, though. When I google
> > 'NixOS tutorial', they don't even make the first page. I would like to
> > suggest blessing them as an official tutorial, or increasing their
> > visibility to beginners by other means.
> >
> > Anand
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 3:28 PM Vladimír Čunát <vcunat at gmail.com
> > <mailto:vcunat at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 11/25/2015 02:48 PM, Rok Garbas wrote:
> >     > word! we need more content not more tools.
> >
> >     Better not in MS Word, but I should be able to convert even that ;-)
> >
> >
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