Nix extravaganza with the new ThinkPad T14 Gen 5 (AMD)

I did it again… I installed NixOS as my host Operating System. “Didn’t you already try that in the past? Are you crazy?” You are right, I had previous track experience and it was not great. I really liked the idea of having a reproducible operating systems, ideally with modular components I can tweak based on the machine or the current situation. My first run I quickly grew tired of the nix functional programming language....

28 July 2024 · 12 min · 2510 words · Jacopo Scannella

Backport Software to Nix Using Overlays

I know, I know… It’s been almost two years since the last time I wrote here. Well.. I had stuff to do! I am still studying for my masters degree, but I had some major step forwards in many other directions. One of those was picking up NixOs, a great operating system powered by the almighty Nix package manager. There are various reasons behind this choice and I will probably expose them once I installed it as my main system on most of my boxes....

4 January 2022 · 4 min · 709 words · Jacopo Scannella