Introduction i3 is an awesome tiling windows manager for GNU/Linux. ArchLinux is a GNU/Linux distribution that gives you a lot of freedom on how you want your system to behave. For this freedom you pay the price that you need to configure everything by yourself and this can be a lot of work! I used i3 and ArchLinux already for a long time but never had everything working 100%. I’m talking about things like a proper keychain and properly working Polkit.

Today I created an wallpaper for my desktop. If you like it, you can use it. The Gnu was created from Nevrax Design Team and is licenced under a GNU General Public Licence V3. You can find the original here. The NixOS logo is from Tim Cuthbertson and is licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International licence. You can find it here.

Nix is a package manager for Linux and other Unix systems. It allows people to get reliable and reproducible builds. It also allows to easily share complex software. With Nix it is no problem to have several different C compilers and several different versions of the same library installed on one system. In this post, I want to document how I use Nix to develop C++ applications. If you never heard of Nix, you better read first about it here.