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How to install Nix on Fedora Silverblue
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https://gitlab.com/ahayzen/silverblue-nix#using-nix-on-fedora-silverblue
It's possible to install nix on Fedora Atomic by disabling SELinux and using bind mounts.
I hope this is not a serious suggestion?
This needs correct SELinux labels, and not just disabling it.
Dan Walsh is very sad.
It seems the Determinate Nix installer supports Fedora Atomic with SELinux enabled.
https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer
Edit:
Since no nix installer supported SELinux at the time, it was the only way to use nix on Fedora Atomic. With a better option available disabling SELinux is a bad idea indeed.
I didn't disable selinux
It seems the Determinate Nix installer supports Fedora Atomic and SELinux.
On topic:
I really like Nix and home-manager. I've mostly switched to NixOS because it's more convenient for window manager setups than building ublue images imo.
Having to mess with containers for different dev environments and keeping the up to date is imo more annoying than creating a shell.nix
Also being able manage my dorfiles with home-manager and installing software declaratively helps in keeping the system free of clutter.