I’d just like to interject for a moment…
Sorry for keeping you hanging, i actually got the idea from here you can ignore the nixgl stuff because that wouldn’t be needed anymore, but the important part is building a derivation with those drivers in it, and then symlink those folders to /run. It should work with rocm/cuda as well but i haven’t troed that yet. I’ve done some basic testing in a vm while i’m working on the config and so far for opengl stuff it has been working fine.
Yeah this happened a while ago, it’s been in stable since 25.05 i think. Nixgl isn’t really a good solution for me though, but luckily i recently found another option of populating the /run directory with the nix drivers, the same way nixos does it. This seems to solve all the issues i had and makes nix on non-nixos much more powerfull to me. Since i can install game launchers and entire compositors with it, and programs that require the native system drivers will still be able to work inside of that nix-installed compositor. I’m thinking of switching back to void now and i’m working on a non-nix home manager setup.
I think nix being slang for nichts is a coincidence, because it actually comes from the dutch word “niks”, which also means nothing. I think this is mentioned on the NixOS website somewhere.
I finally decided to cave in and give vim a try recently as well, but quickly ended up using helix instead. Mainly because for most of the IDE type functionality you don’t have to mess around with plugins at all, which i really hated about both vim and neovim. I also really like that all my favorite themes are already built-in. As for getting into it, for helix it can be as simple as adding it to your packages list (or maybe there’s a module to enable it, idk). For the lsp to work you just need to install the language server you need and helix should find it on your path. I recommend just going through the tutor, and after that, just get familiar with it by using it for anything you want to edit, even if it’s just simple config files. I still have a long way to go myself but after just a few days i noticed becoming faster and the motions feeling less clunky. Also don’t worry about memorizing all the commands. Just stick with some basics and as you go you’ll find more commands that you realize are usefull, and build your knowledge up slowly like that.
Edit: just realized i may have misread and that you were only asking about how to install the nix way, instead of being new to vim/helix 😶 oh well lol