Oh dang, I had kids get up. I am still working on the issue. Sometimes you have to reboot to have full changes, but I would NOT recommend. I would go back to stable for now.
Hey, your not hopeless! in fact your arrived at nix means your one the right bread crumb trail.
You can also get more instant help, on discord, matrix…
the community is very friendly, even those with 30 years of unix experience, when they hit nix, are like total beginners.
and that’s part of the fun…
I don’t know where you are on earth, but https://nix.ug , find a local user group…and you can connect with other nixxers in a room who can get you started.
So, please keep trying… a lot of new users come from Arch…
Well it throws me some error, don’t know what that even means tho:
error: You're trying to define a value of type `lambda'
rather than an attribute set for the option
`programs.htop'!
This usually happens if `programs.htop' has option
definitions inside that are not matched. Please check how to properly define
this option by e.g. referring to `man 5 configuration.nix'!
(use '--show-trace' to show detailed location information)
building Nix...
error: You're trying to define a value of type `lambda'
rather than an attribute set for the option
`programs.htop'!
This usually happens if `programs.htop' has option
definitions inside that are not matched. Please check how to properly define
this option by e.g. referring to `man 5 configuration.nix'!
(use '--show-trace' to show detailed location information)
building the system configuration...
error: You're trying to define a value of type `lambda'
rather than an attribute set for the option
`programs.htop'!
This usually happens if `programs.htop' has option
definitions inside that are not matched. Please check how to properly define
this option by e.g. referring to `man 5 configuration.nix'!
This is definitely a problem with dealing with scope. The config in use isn’t the config for home manager. I have inadvertently avoided the entire issue because I used flakes and I am not familiar enough with the nix scripting language to suggest a way forward. You can always look at my code at for example at:
That being said, my code is definitely not very good. I am in Day 4 of trying out NixOS.