Re: [Nix-dev] Nix GUI? / make Nix more beginner-friendly

Hi, > Hey Roland, can you tell which package manager GUI do you like best? I usually don't use package manager GUIs, since I usually use Debian and know the Debian package manager commandline-tools quite well and am much faster with those (and because I don't like GUI-programs which need

Re: [Nix-dev] Nix GUI? / make Nix more beginner-friendly

Hey Roland, can you tell which package manager GUI do you like best? I'm addicted to command line interface because - want to do nix-instantiate, nixos-rebuild, nix-build and nix-shell. Nix-env -i is the rarest of my tools - it works even If X is unavailable (remote, broken X) That's also a

Re: [Nix-dev] Nix GUI? / make Nix more beginner-friendly

Both are not exactly what you describe, but: Here are some ideas on a redesigned Nix UI (not GUI): https://gist.github.com/edolstra/efcadfd240c2d8906348 I think Shea Levy is working on (some of) this as part of the removing-Perl effort. Here is a GUI for installing Nix (work in progress):

Re: [Nix-dev] Nix GUI? / make Nix more beginner-friendly

Roland, We should talk. I would be interested in helping set this up. --Taeer > On Aug 4, 2016, at 09:52, Tomasz Czyż wrote: > > Roland, > > check: nix-env -iA nixos.nixui > > 2016-08-04 14:21 GMT+01:00 Roland Koebler : >> Hi, >> >> I

Re: [Nix-dev] Nix GUI? / make Nix more beginner-friendly

Roland, check: nix-env -iA nixos.nixui 2016-08-04 14:21 GMT+01:00 Roland Koebler : > Hi, > > I really like the concept of Nix, but I think the commandline-tools > are not very beginner-friendly and not very intuitive for non-Nix-users. > > Most distributions offer

[Nix-dev] Nix GUI? / make Nix more beginner-friendly

Hi, I really like the concept of Nix, but I think the commandline-tools are not very beginner-friendly and not very intuitive for non-Nix-users. Most distributions offer a GUI for package management, but I haven't found one for Nix, although nox looks like a step in the right direction. But the