What it is, why we made it, and how it fits into the Nix ecosystem

Zero to Nix is a highly opinionated learning resource for Nix created by Determinate Systems. We believe Zero to Nix fills a major gap for two reasons:

• We find most of the existing Nix documentation to be difficult to navigate for beginners. Sources like the Nixpkgs manual, the official website, Nix Pills, and semi-official sources like nix.dev are all great once you have a strong sense of how Nix works and what it provides. We encourage you to explore them and we even link them in many places in Zero to Nix. But together they can be daunting to the uninitiated, and we wanted to provide a gentle "front end" to the official documentation sources.
• We strongly believe that flakes are the future of Nix and that people onboarding into Nix should use them from the get-go. But flakes are currently marked as an experimental feature of Nix and are thus not discussed in any of the official Nix documentation sources (with the exception of the Wiki entry for flakes).

This is a ported version of the Nix Pills, a series of blog posts written by Luca Bruno (aka Lethalman) and originally published in 2014 and 2015. It provides a tutorial introduction into the Nix package manager and Nixpkgs package collection, in the form of short chapters called ‘pills’.

Since the Nix Pills are considered a classic introduction to Nix, an effort to port them to the current format was led by Graham Christensen (aka grahamc / gchristensen) and other contributors in 2017.

For an up-to-date version, please visit https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/. An EPUB version is also available.

• Nix Pills EPUB

Da ich immer wieder gefragt werde

• wie man ein Zweirad mit Hilfe einer anderen Übersetzung schneller macht / wie die Beschleunigung verbessert werden kann
• welche Kettenlänge nach einer Änderung der Zähnezahl benötigt wird
• ob das Fahrzeug dann besser oder schlechter zieht
• wie sich die Geschwindigkeit ändert
• warum es billige und teure Ketten gibt und deren Unterschiede

habe ich hier für Sie die wichtigsten Antworten und die Formeln zur Berechnung zusammengestellt.