A little annoyed with NixOS's documentation.
I had to rewrite the whole GPU information because NixOS documentation is a mess. For starters there are 4 sources, 3 Wiki sites for NixOS concerning Nvidia
Wiki 1 https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nvidia
Wiki 2 https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/NVIDIA
Wiki 3 https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/#sec-x11-graphics-cards-nvidia
My goal is just to enable the drivers and allow the user access to the generic settings. If they want to dig deeper or need more, they can explore that on their own, and I link to the new official Wiki (twice) where they can obtain that information. There was a whole thread on their support forums concerning the Wiki and Nvidia, and how to best get Nvidia working. https://discourse.nixos.org/t/there-are-3-nvidia-wiki-pages-for-nixos/64066?u=linuxisbest
Having me go over everything (several times) gave me the opportunity to expand the AMD and Intel support. It also made me look over my configuration and realize I needed to help make this easier to read. In some places I had too much white space, in others not enough, while going a little too deep in documentation, when the whole goal is to make this easy, so I had to rethink some things.
The good news is I think ultimately, I ended up with a better configuration file (have a look): https://codeberg.org/Linux-Is-Best/NixOS_Configuration/src/branch/main/basic_config.txt
#NixOs #Nix #Linux #Foss #Nvidia #Development
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