NixCon2023 Blending NixOS with Flathub for friends and family

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Creating a NixOS workstation configuration for non-Linux experts using Flathub with a graphical storefront so they can install the apps they want.
Since 2006 I've been helping friends and family run desktop Linux. This lightning talk reflects on the distributions I've used in the past and why I'm now using NixOS with Flathub enabled to make NixOS accessible to non-expert Linux users.
Martin Wimpress
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[@nodeswitch]

Great presentation. Excited to give this a proper go.

[@birdstrikes]

Gooooooo Martin!

[@foehammer2127]

Love this with nixOS, but an alternative is immutable fedora.

[@CrazyMineCuber]

Why not use the automatic option already in the default NixOS modules?

[@dv_xl]

Automatic option? For what?

[@CrazyMineCuber]

@@dv_xl automatic updates which he mentioned at the end