[amelius]

How do you configure and install low level hardware drivers? Aren't these different on both systems? And wouldn't proprietary drivers rely on hardcoded versions of libc, for example, causing a dependency hell?

[pxc]

> wouldn't proprietary drivers rely on hardcoded versions of libc, for example, causing a dependency hell?

You can have multiple copies of glibc on NixOS and it's fine as long as you don't need two different versions of it in the same process. Have you run into this on NixOS?

[charcircuit]

This is handled by having multiple config files. System specfic stuff goes into a dedicated file which wouldn't be shared.

[amelius]

And proprietary drivers?

[cfcosta]

I only use one, which is nvidia. It's already a nixos option, so I just set them on my configuration file.

Three options to be exact:

hardware.nvidia.modesetting.enable = true; services.xserver.videoDrivers = [ "nvidia" ]; hardware.opengl = { enable = true; driSupport = true; driSupport32Bit = true; };

First enables nvidia modesetting, second enables the driver, and the third enables opengl, with a special flag to also enable it for 32bit stuff (like old games on steam).