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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You need to update your inputs so that you're using the 23.11 branch of nixpkgs instead of the old one. In my experience, a couple of things will break, but there's usually warnings about it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Oh okay. That makes sense. I should have mentioned im using unstable as my inputs. So I assume I just need to update.

Edit: I just ran neofetch and apparently I'm already running NixOS 24.05. 👍

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, as a nixos-unstable user, you've been running "23.11" for the past 6 months ;)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

yeah if you're using unstable than it's rolling release and you just need to update regularly. the point releases shouldn't matter too much