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minus-squareborosilicate@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up22arrow-down5·edit-27 days agoFinally looked into using CachyOS features on NixOS and it is indeed possible. Nix CachyOS kernel Edit: Looks like I have some haters downvoting objectively innocuous comments that I make. Lemvotes exists you know?
minus-squareAllero@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up4·7 days agoWoah nice! We need this to be used on more systems. I’d love to see this applied to more traditional immutable Linux - Bazzite in particular should benefit immensely.
minus-squaredegen@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 days agoI just made a comment on another in the thread asking about the kernel vs distro with exactly this in mind lol I have a feeling people might take it like a “but have you tried cachy on nix?” Kind of thing Like our “arch btw” is literally just mentioning nix lmao
minus-squareCorngood@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down3·7 days agoWhat are the interesting kernel features? I see zfs mentioned and custom optimisation flags, but those seem pretty easy to do in nixpkgs. I didn’t look at the patches. I guess the binary cache is nice if you want that specific kernel config.
minus-squareurushitan 漆たん@kakera.kintsugi.moelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·7 days agoIt uses the BORE scheduler: https://github.com/firelzrd/bore-scheduler
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Finally looked into using CachyOS features on NixOS and it is indeed possible.
Nix CachyOS kernel
Edit: Looks like I have some haters downvoting objectively innocuous comments that I make. Lemvotes exists you know?
Woah nice! We need this to be used on more systems. I’d love to see this applied to more traditional immutable Linux - Bazzite in particular should benefit immensely.
I just made a comment on another in the thread asking about the kernel vs distro with exactly this in mind lol
I have a feeling people might take it like a “but have you tried cachy on nix?” Kind of thing
Like our “arch btw” is literally just mentioning nix lmao
What are the interesting kernel features?
I see zfs mentioned and custom optimisation flags, but those seem pretty easy to do in nixpkgs. I didn’t look at the patches.
I guess the binary cache is nice if you want that specific kernel config.
It uses the BORE scheduler: https://github.com/firelzrd/bore-scheduler
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