My name is Shom. I’m not new to Linux but new to declarative Linux, I started creating a Nix configuration a month ago and am really excited about the technology and have been closely and eagerly following the establishment of Aux on mastodon first and then since day 1 of the forum. But since I literally have no experience except for a bare bones config that I’m running in a VM, I didn’t know if/how/what to get involved with.
However, with the first unstable release I realized that my complete lack of experience can actually be helpful by reporting back as a new user getting started with auxolotl (alright, the name change from aux to auxolotl is what really sealed the deal).
I plan to convert my dotfiles (currently on 23.11 with flakes) to point to auxolotl tomorrow and start engaging with the great community being built here. Please steer me where my enthusiasm is going to be most helpful.
I’m May, a student in Brazil and, really, just an amateur and Linux enthusiast. Last year I made the decision to try out Linux, and after a few weeks with Arch, I made the jump to NixOS. So uh, yeah, I kinda learned Linux at the same time as I was learning Nix… Which worked out surprisingly fine, considering how many horror stories you hear about NixOS online. (The fact I already knew a bit about functional languages helped.) I’ve recently made the jump to Fedora Silverblue (funnily enough, right on time to avoid the xz vulnerability), but I’ve kept an interest in the ecosystem as whole.
Really, what sold me here was the quality of the community. The CoC, the “Auxioms”, and generally just how nice people have been make this so much more friendlier than the mainline NixOS spaces. Moderation is very important, and I’m glad it’s being taken as a priority! Also, the opportunity to tackle the rougher edges of Nix (SPECIALLY THE DOCUMENTATION!!!) is priceless - I love Nix, but it feels like I have to use a bunch of other projects like home-manager, nix-output-monitor and flake-parts to make the experience actually feel nice.
Once this project and Lix mature a little, I plan to make the jump into Aux, probably in a multi-boot setup. I miss NixOS, Silverblue is so stable that it’s kinda boring. (That’s the joke answer- really, the amount of packages available in nixpkgs is amazing, and it made installing and configuring niche software a breeze, even if they didn’t always immediately work.)
Great community shaping up here! Am myself involved with FOSS, Fediverse and Humane Technology for many years. Started Humane Tech Community in 2019. It is now dormant, and I’ve been facilitating SocialHub developer community for ActivityPub protocol + fedi, for a bunch of years, as well as the Fediverse Enhancement Proposals (FEP) process.
Recent 2 years I am involved with formation of the Social Coding movement, to be not a Community but a timeless DoOcracy that shapes up organically. Topics are “Social experience design” (SX) i.e. what constitutes truly social online interaction, “Sustainable FOSS” (the software succeeded, the movement… umm, not yet), and the “Free Software Development Lifecycle” or FSDL. Which is a holistic way to look at every development activity from first inception of a project, to its eventual end-of-life (unless it is immortal, of course )
In dreams I imagine emergence of a Human Web (coming forth from the Social Web), and a veritable Peopleverse that arises from that, where people can be who they wanna be and have online and offline worlds be seamlessly aligned to each other in support of daily lives and human freedoms.
PS. On the fedi I am currently at: @smallcircles@social.coop
I’m Jeremy. A currently unemployed software developer. Usually when I get paid it’s to work with Ruby on Rails and React but I’m actually happy using a pretty broad range of languages and environments.
Hello, my name is Antonio. I’m a Brazilian in California with a career in site reliability engineering, a small homelab, and a fever for declarative configuration.
I started learning Nix in mid-2022, had a test VM up and running three months later, and a functional config for my NAS another three months later. Half a year from “I want to learn this OS” to actually running the OS—bonkers, right? But, for me, it paid off, and I can no longer imagine managing my systems any other way.
Aside from Nix, I self-host useful software on my Kubernetes cluster, maintain a Slack bot for my radio club, and solve miscellaneous problems with Bash, Python, Rust, or Nix.
I’ve already pointed my whole homelab to github:auxolotl/nixpkgs—and Lix just two hours ago. My sleeves are properly rolled up.
Hewwo I’m the Coding Puffin. I live in France, I make software for company mostly in dotnet and sometime mobile apps + some automation with CI/CD and server management.
I been using linux in a permanent manner on my main computer since 2019 and switched to nixos somewhere along 2022/2023. I was attracted to nix because i like tinkering with config, option and try packages which on other distro always end up with me having a broken system because i accumulated those and keep forgetting to remove them . I’ve been since then experimenting with nix building a normal channel config at first and then switched to flakes recently. I love birds so all my nix systems have a modern dinosaur name.
Heya! I am Pi-Cla and I am actually joining here not from NixOS but from openSUSE. I have tried NixOS before but the gap between the “official” documentation and what a lot of people use (such as flakes and home manager) confused me a lot so I ended up not sticking around.
I am gonna need to get up to speed with how packaging works but given that I maintain a bunch of packages over on openSUSE once I do figure it out I am willing to consistently update them from one release to another!
I am Daniel, very late 30s, French living near Paris and Java/Kotlin developer since about 15 years.
I am also a Linux user since more than 20 years (Mandrake, if remember correctly, Debian, Gentoo, and Arch since 2008), and I am curious about NixOS since about 2 months.
I try to follow the current NixOS “situation”, I am curious how it will go, and I don’t know if I will really be active here or not, but maybe it is the moment to integrate a Linux community and not the right moment to join the NixOS community for the moment.
Late 30s, been using Linux full time for a few years, switched to NixOS in October.
This is the issue that made me decide to switch back to Debian, until I discovered Aux.
The culture, at least amongst the people volunteering support, is atrocious. I’d ask a question starting with “how” and get a completely unactionable answer starting with “because”, or get nothing more than an “XD” in response to a question about missing dependencies. It often feels like they would rather prove they can recite 200 digits of pi than actually help anyone.
Hoping this project changes the culture over there or provides an escape route in the future!
Heya! I’m a sysadmin from switzerland who got into NixOS somewhere around 2018. I have done some package PRs starting in 2019 and am looking for ways to make NixOS tasty in the very corporate world I currently work in. A seemingly impossible thing
I’m also highly interested in oils and thus am trying to replace bash with osh in the stdenv as a sideproject.
I don’t have time to really contribute to Aux (other than proposing cute animals ) but I enjoy to lurk in the forum and see where it’s heading
Heyaa,
I kinda just stumbled over this today due to a Reddit post linking to Lix and then further here, I don’t have too much experience with Nix/NixOS in general but this project seems interesting so here I am I guess.
I’m currently studying CS at an University in Vienna. and have finished my first year, so no idea if I can realistically be if any help to the project but maybe once I know more how all of this works .
Currently trying to teach myself Kotlin and some other smaller things, but mainly just trying to find interesting projects like this one
I’m Romina, I’m a Salvadoran-American software developer living in southern California. I have been writing software and using linux in different capacities for the last 15 years or so, I’m nearly 33 so its about about half of my life so far. I last used nix around 7 years ago both on Darwin and Linux. I was trying to contribute to Secure Scuttlebutt at the time, but the build system didn’t exactly mesh with nix so I switched back to my trusty mainstays: FreeBSD and Alpine Linux.
These days I’m working on community mesh networking and p2p infrastructure projects that have pushed me to reconsider how I operate. I have started making plans to migrate my systems to nix / lix / aux and to start making contributions to aux to support my work. I am primarily interested in packaging (for Go, Python, Gerbil Scheme, and embedded programming tools in particular) and heterogeneous infrastructure management.
I’ve recently started a project called IX, an adhoc cooperative/collective for community tech projects, art, and sci-fi-esque social aspirations for a better world. I’m collaborating with some folks in my area to setup a free internet community mesh network and trying to find ways to make our tech both easy to work with and hard to break.
I’m still learning about Aux, but it seems like a promising project that I can hopefully lend a hand with.
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