ikidd@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 days agoThree Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Uglypierrezemb.frexternal-linkmessage-square106linkfedilinkarrow-up1186arrow-down16 cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
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minus-squareelucubra@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·4 days agoI wonder why nobody has created a simple gui for Nixconfig.
minus-squarefrozencow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 days agoSomeone has done just that: https://github.com/snowfallorg/nixos-conf-editor It is part of https://snowflakeos.org/, though I don’t know about its developments atm.
minus-squareiopq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agoIt’s less simple than text because it actually takes more space to view the same amount of configs.
minus-squarech8zer@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 days agoSomething like this is really hard to make a gui for. I suppose a GUI would only be useful for discovering config values? Either way, a gui would likely look like YAST on OpenSuse.
I wonder why nobody has created a simple gui for Nixconfig.
Someone has done just that: https://github.com/snowfallorg/nixos-conf-editor It is part of https://snowflakeos.org/, though I don’t know about its developments atm.
It’s less simple than text because it actually takes more space to view the same amount of configs.
Something like this is really hard to make a gui for. I suppose a GUI would only be useful for discovering config values?
Either way, a gui would likely look like YAST on OpenSuse.