clample

NixOS Ubuntu Dual Boot

Why?

After using NixOS for a year, I've found it to be a great operating system. When the software I need is on nixpkgs, things work out great. When I need to install software from outside of nixpkgs, though, it can become a pain. Trying to figure out the quirks of some closed source application can become pretty complicated. It would be great to package it and contribute it back to nixpkgs, but a lot of the time I just want to have the application working as soon as possible.

Since Ubuntu is a more standard linux distribution, I hope that it's better supported by some of these closed source applications. By dual booting, it's possible to get the best of both worlds.

Alternatives to Dual Booting

phryneas

{pkgs, lib, config, ...}:
with lib;
let
  liveshareGist = builtins.fetchTarball {
    url = "https://gist.github.com/phryneas/698996d24748d3ce7f61ef818949a28e/archive/3dbf12cd282ebcb6cacf40d466e4a519d4ce1dfe.tar.gz";
    sha256 = "0mas9rnr6hn7yiivjs5xvnprhrqwac47nqfxh3vgmm67v982v83l";
  };
  livesharePkg = pkgs.callPackage liveshareGist {};
  cfg = config.services.vsliveshare;
  pkg = livesharePkg.override { enableDiagnosticsWorkaround = cfg.enableDiagnosticsWorkaround; };

rycee

{ config, lib, ... }:

with lib;

let

  cfg = config.services.nixBinaryCacheCache;

  nginxCfg = config.services.nginx;