South Park. A fresh install and I’m stalled before step one over a known WiFi driver issue that has had free generic solutions available for years. Even triquel had a driver for it. Documention and continuity remind of a teenage lan party with to much jolt and sugar. If it gets better I’ll recant this rant. Until then I think I install Guix before search for “How to reinvent the wifi driver wheel” for the 5th time in my life. That’s hours I’d rather be making money, love or napping. G’Day Mates! Cheers!
Didn’t even mention the wifi device, little to no hope on the actual underlying issue being investigated
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Not really looking for community help, I’ve already downloaded the proper opensource realtek firmware files, installed them which corrected the long known issue. There are in life some indicators that when you see them missed or overlooked, you automatically know what coming next. The way that Nix Flakes is presented, is somewhat frightening. The project as a whole just reminds me of projects in the 1980-90s Brilliant yes, young yes, time and seasoning will help. Just put the Jolt down and back away from the keyboard.
That pattern is the classic community L. The complaint is lack of community engagement and propagated known issues, of which this attitude is extending. What did you do and how did you fix the issue you’re having? This ask isn’t for you (I suspect you’re got all the means to solve your own problems), it’s for those behind you.
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Thank you, that was very kind of you. Yes, your right things don’t get better without active engagement. I’m off to Yosemite till Monday, a no electronics weekend, I’ll put together and step by step tutorial and post it up Monday night “ish". Nix is a great idea, especially for the scientific community that needs something like this. Still a big whole in transferability from my system to another, it almost needs chain of custody rules. Anyway, Cheers, Id be happy to help out!
Thank you as well. I’m using it and mostly happy with it though a few use-cases are definitely busted. I use WSL at work and nixos on WSL has not been a great experience since WSL blocks your ability to control boot and filesystems, so it limits the usefulness.