dlyons

Getting my hands on a 3dfx Voodoo3 felt like such a dream.

I’ve been using Nix on Mac for a couple years now and haven’t seen this behavior. Just works.

Maybe mixing sudo / user permissions during initial installation broke it. Nix is pretty unforgiving with not great error messages.

I would argue the benefit is also it’s declarative, done forever, and your machine becomes relatively bulletproof.

Dev environment issues are a thing of the past, once you’ve defined your configuration.

If something is broken with a package, I don’t have to figure it out myself —- I just rollback, wait for someone to fix it upstream in nixpkgs and pull down the patch later.

1. In the beginning, it's very slow. But just iterate and make your project better and better.

2. Use your README to grab the attention of the user. I have a list of features, videos, etc. at the top.

3. I regularly post on various subreddits, Hacker News, etc. trying to support new Nix users. Sometimes I link to my project as an example of code that may help them. I've done this over a couple of years, so there's now a collection of posts people are finding and driving traffic.

4. My experience was that in the beginning, I had to grind out each star one by one. The project never went "viral". But after a certain growth point, Github will pick it up and start recommending it to others.

5. Reddit and Github are now my biggest sources of traffic.

Hope this helps!

Same. I initially started with Guix, because I'm a Lisp hacker at heart, but once I learned about nix-darwin I jumped ship and there was no going back ;)

Keeping my NixOS machine on my desk and Macbook in sync seamlessly is also super cool.