Being new to NIXOS I am searching a lot to find out how to do something. These searches result in a lot of information that while of historic interest only add confusion as to what is useful in the current situation. So my question is how do I narrow down my search results to to most recent applicable answers with out having to write volumes in my query?
Sorry, I don’t think there’s magic powder for that. But here are some reliable resources:
https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/unstable/
https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/unstable/
If it’s about nix, it hasn’t changed much from from 2021 onwards.
If it’s about NixOS, figure out how you’d do it on a regular distro and translate the config into something that works within NixOS. But the module system hasn’t changed in forever, usually the NixOS manual suffices.
If it’s about nixpkgs, ask anyway, as it changes so quickly that an answer from last month is outdated.
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Your last line is what I was on about. So it’s OK to ask then? Other forums often has some smart arse that responds RTFM which is why I rarely ask or comment and just struggle through.
Unless you blatantly did not attempt a single thing to solve your own issue and expect to be spoon-fed, you’re not going to get snarky “RTFM”-type replies here.
If someone is being an ass in this or any other regard, please flag them as that’s not the kind of people we want here.
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Feel free to search on this forum for that, there aren’t many results because the question becomes which manual (there are 3) and where in the manual (they’re massive).
Generic questions will probably get a link to the applicable section of the applicable manual at minimum. Specific questions get specific answers, so be willing to share your code, what you tried, and full errors without paraphasing, and you should have a good time. And yeah, snarky replies generally get flagged and hidden.
For better or worse, this operates more like a programming forum than a Linux distro forum.
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