The Nix Hour is a weekly beginner-oriented improvised QA-style lecture on Nix, hosted by Tweag. Here you can bring your questions and we'll answer them with more context, examples, alternatives, tradeoffs and related topics. These meetings are open for anybody to join, but also recorded and uploaded to the Tweag YouTube channel. For more information check out https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-nix-hour-a-weekly-nix-qa-lecture-by-tweag/22767
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Questions can only be asked by voice or chat in the meeting: https://meet.jit.si/nix-hour The Nix Hour is an open beginner-oriented Q&A-style lecture on Nix, where you can bring your questions and we’ll answer them with more context, examples, alternatives, tradeoffs and related topics. Matrix room for questions, feedback and notifications: https://matrix.to/#/%23nix-hour:matrix.org Issue tracker for asynchronous questions: https://github.com/tweag/nix-hour/issues Previous sessions playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyzwHTVJlRc8yjlx4VR4LU5A5O44og9in For more information and updates, check out https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-nix-hour-a-weekly-nix-qa-lecture-by-tweag/22767 00:00 Intro 00:27 Q: k3s and cgroup scopes on NixOS 01:43 Ways to isntall package on NixOS: nix-env, nix-shell, systemPackages 03:15 Using services from NixOS modules 05:03 Looking for information about cgroups 07:20 Q: Overriding user@.service unit parameters in NixOS 09:02 Tracking down systemd unit in NixOS configuration 18:41 Checking NixOS configuration values without rebuilding the system 22:37 Where NixOS module system looks for configuration files 26:27 Evaluating unit text without building 30:11 Overriding config of user@.service 34:26 Example: looking for stateVersion declaration 36:06 Operator precedence in Nix 42:10 Q: How does RFC process work in Nix(OS) 42:52 When to create RFC 45:22 RFC process overview 53:55 Q: Compare Nix to Spack 55:35 Outro