Post #4200317
2026-07-24 01:51 UTC
@Rerum@mastodon.social yea i reckon u cld figure out a way of making it work, tho i suppose by default it wouldn’t since things are installed to /nix and dat wouldn’t be in the system’s path or wtv?
so if ure installing some CLI tool u’d use from the terminal urself, ure good since it’ll be in ur shell’s path and u can run it - but for things like drivers etc. OOTB i imagine they wouldn’t be recognised to be available on the system. if that makes sense.
for example, if someone using an immutable system like SteamOS, and the distro lacks a certain driver, even if they cld install it using Nix - i think it wouldn’t work?
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@phaer@fosstodon.org 2026-07-24 05:37
@irfan@sakurajima.social @Rerum@mastodon.social Ideally, you could just try it? Should work as expected, store paths get symlinked into nix profiles which add to $PATH and such in conventional setup. That includes GUI application, their icons, etc