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Originally Posted by thisissavo
I didn't want to start a new thread for this, since I don't think there will be much discussion on this.
Anyway: has anyone tried to build installation for NixOS? It's a derivation of Linux that uses nix package manager, and it differs a lot from other linux distributions.
More about it here: https://nixos.org/
I would try to install reaper on nixos, but i don't have that much experience.
More on how to write expressions for building packages with nix: https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#chap-w...ix-expressions
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Without knowing too much, other than reading some info on their home page, I don't see why it wouldn't "just work". Basically, NixOS would have to be using a dramatically modified kernel, which seems unlikely. REAPER for Linux is essentially just like a REAPER portable install in Winderps. No installation is required, and it automatically creates your configs in ~/.config/REAPER. Just unpack the tarball, and see if it will run.
With the way Cockos appears to be handling the Linux builds, I can't imagine they're ever going to bother trying to target specific package managers. There doesn't seem to be any reason to do that, since it only has one dependency that I know of (JACK - and it will still technically run without it). Normally, that sort of work is left up to 3rd parties to create packages for various distributions (either someone w/ free time or the distribution development team).
If you want an install that feels more permanent, I would suggest unpacking the tarball to your /opt directory - that's normally where user-installed software should go. Or there are some other conventions - I think some'ers in /usr/local or so (but I always use /opt so idk for sure the other common locations).