Recently installed nixos and was trying to get docker installed with little success - I tried googling for a while and came up short. Maybe it’s obvious to veteran nixos users. Does anyone know of a comprehensive nixos guide or YouTube series? I’d love you forever.
tmountain's reply has the best direct response to the issue you ran into. Check it out, it's a one-liner. :)
I think video resources are maybe under-emphasized in talk about Nix on HN, and they're important for people who prefer that modality, so I've compiled a list of videos on Nix that I have watched and feel might be helpful for learning it.
There is no comprehensive YouTube series that I can recommend, but you can find really good introductory and overview videos in the form of past conference lectures in the NixCon and NixOS channels on YouTube.
Here are some playlists and direct references to educational material on Nix and NixOS that I've actually watched. Taken together, they will at least outline all of the normal stuff you might want to do on NixOS, from configuring your system to writing packages to (if you want) leveraging flakes to running your own binary cache.
There's also some really good content outside of the official NixOS YouTube channels! See below.
Informal intro to the Nix language, derivations, and Nixpkgs (Silvan Mosberger, from a Nix onboarding for another Tweag employee, recorded 2022): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DJtHIpdp0Y
There are others out there which I didn't list because I've never watched them, and there are probably some older ones I did enjoy which I was unable to dig up. It's probably really only worth watching one or two of the generic, overview, intro-type videos. But there are plenty of them, so feel free to decide within a few seconds whether one clicks with you, and choose it based on that. FWIW, I think Charles Strahan's NixOS intro video is my favorite of that type.
If you really want a comprehensive lecture playlist, the curriculum I recommend is:
1. Charles Strahan's intro to NixOS
2. Burke Libbey's Nixology series (because his videos are relatively short)
3. The listed NixCon and Summer of Nix videos
4. Mic92's Flakes 101
After that, the world's your oyster and you'll definitely know what to search for in the written documentation whenever you need a proper reference.
NixCon videos not listed here can be useful for pointing you to interesting, new or important ancillary and third-party projects in the ecosystem. :)
