chrisanthropic

Download the image builder

• git clone [email protected]:Robertof/nixos-docker-sd-image-builder.git
• cd nixos-docker-sd-image-builder

Configure for Raspi4

• modify /config/rpi4/default.nix to increase size of boot partition
  • this step is optional but I ran out of space in /boot pretty quickly with the default setting since I'm still learning and rebuilding a lot. Let's leave some room for trial & error.
  • sdImage.firmwareSize = 1024;
• modify /config/sd-image.nix
• ./rpi3 becomes ./rpi4

probonopd

Think twice before abandoning X11. Wayland breaks everything!

Wayland breaks everything! It is binary incompatible, provides no clear transition path with 1:1 replacements for everything in X11, and is even philosophically incompatible with X11. Hence, if you are interested in existing applications to "just work" without the need for adjustments, then you may be better off avoiding Wayland.

Wayland solves no issues I have but breaks almost everything I need. Even the most basic, most simple things (like xkill) - in this case with no obvious replacement. And usually it stays broken, because the Wayland folks mostly seem to care about Automotive, Gnome, maybe KDE - and alienating everyone else (e.g., people using just an X11 window manager or something like GNUstep) in the process.

Feature comparison

rcarmo

# Use this with a slow cron - I had mine set to run every 24 bours and keep copies of the last 5 releases

from os import environ, listdir, makedirs
from os.path import join, exists, getmtime, isdir
from shutil import rmtree
from json import loads
from asyncio import run, create_task, sleep, create_subprocess_shell
from asyncio.subprocess import PIPE, STDOUT 
from aiohttp import ClientSession
from logging import basicConfig, INFO, DEBUG, WARNING, getLogger