I wanted to install it on my Pinebook Pro (AARCH64, with Tow-Boot installed to SPI) but I haven’t gotten it working.
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Regular nixos user here. Also failed on pinebook nixos, then bricked it trying to install something else. Ah well, seemed like it would be a cool machine.
SPI flash bricked the machine? That should be a fairly easy repair for your local electronics shop, if you tell them what file to flash there
Its been a while since I did it. I needed towboot but you couldn't install that with the default distro, then I tried installing another distro and now it doesn't even show an LED when I plug it in. Is it flash, is it something else? Dunno. Just hasn't been enough of a priority for me to spend more time on it.
I tried Nixos but it was overkill for my desktop usage. The learning time is a cost but also, on my old laptop, there is a noticeable performance loss comparing to arch. The benefits is not enough for my usecase. I prefer dealing with arch shitty updates.
right here
Have been using NixOS as my sole os for a month or so and have zero complaints
It will quite frequently make installing and configuring things that could otherwise be a nightmare on other distros absolutely effortless (to switch DE you change one line of code, for instance)
On occasion however it makes things harder than other distros because you can't really apply stack overflow questions, differentiation etc for other distros to it as well
Generally speaking 90% of what I've wanted to do with it has had a built in option or package that was a one or two line change to a file and a command to rebuild
Also, as long as you install steam via the built in option gaming works perfectly on it for me
I prefer Debian.
Nix on Debian is really nice.