Nix: Configure and Prosper - An Introduction to Nix Ecosystem and Usage

Explore the world of Nix in this 39-minute conference talk from Lambda Days 2022. Dive into Nix's ecosystem, tools, and basic usage, learning how this package manager and specialized language enable reproducible builds, cross-platform compatibility, and binary caching. Discover NixOS, a functional Linux distro, and gain practical knowledge on Nix's core concepts, syntax, and real-world applications. Follow along as the speaker covers building basic derivations, using nix-shell, configuring NixOS with examples, and introduces ecosystem tools like home-manager. Learn about Nix usage on non-NixOS systems, see a nix-portable showcase, and explore solutions for reproducibility issues. The talk concludes with an introduction to the unstable feature of flakes and includes a Q&A session.

00:00 - - Intro and Nix as a Language
06:18 - - Nix as a Package Manager
10:07 - - Nix as an OS
14:13 - - Nix-shells
16:05 - - Non-NixOS Nix
19:29 - - Home-manager
22:23 - - What is Nix
23:42 - - Test and QnA