Description: cosarara's blog about technology-related things.
So I switched jobs and got a laptop from the company, and it had ubuntu installed with FDE. Normally I would have done a clean install of arch on it, but I said hey, let’s just give ubuntu a chance.
When it came to setting up the elm language server though, you need a specific version of node and the fight with npm got tiring enough that I decided to go the Nix On Non Nixos route. So I installed nix on ubuntu, ran nix-env -iA a bunch of times, and everything was good in the world.
Then it turned out that most of the time, when something is outdated in the ubuntu repo, it is just easier to install stuff from nix than adding PPAs. That’s how I ended up with neovim, shellcheck installed from nix too.