NixOS on ARM/Raspberry Pi 5: Difference between revisions

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NixOS is not officially supported on the Raspberry Pi 5, and the community efforts to bring the operating system to the development board have been less successful than the ones targeting the previous generation, the [[NixOS on ARM/Raspberry Pi 4|Raspberry Pi 4]]. It is advisable, for the time being, that all critical projects continue using and deploying the older model, for which the support is significantly more robust.

For the adventurous, there are multiple community efforts enabling NixOS on the board, with various degrees of user friendliness, support availability or robustness, some of which can be found in the ''Other solutions'' section below. Amongst them, the community has flagged one repository that seems to have achieved a reasonable trade-off between all the necessary requirements for such a project; this is described in the ''~~Current~~ Proposed Solution'' section below. While by no means official, and its level of support still under development, it is a good enough starting ground for people wanting to take advantage of their Raspberry Pi 5.

For the adventurous, there are multiple community efforts enabling NixOS on the board, with various degrees of user friendliness, support availability or robustness, some of which can be found in the ''Other solutions'' section below. Amongst them, the community has flagged one repository that seems to have achieved a reasonable trade-off between all the necessary requirements for such a project; this is described in the ''Proposed Solution'' section below. While by no means official, and its level of support still under development, it is a good enough starting ground for people wanting to take advantage of their Raspberry Pi 5.

However, this solution reuses proprietary software distributed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation; which is highly criticized by the NixOS community, and the Linux community at large, for reasons including reproducibility, transparency, security, predictibility, etc. There are efforts in the community to address these issues as well, and the following sub-section is an overview into these efforts.

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 NixOS is not officially supported on the Raspberry Pi 5, and the community efforts to bring the operating system to the development board have been less successful than the ones targeting the previous generation, the [[NixOS on ARM/Raspberry Pi 4|Raspberry Pi 4]]. It is advisable, for the time being, that all critical projects continue using and deploying the older model, for which the support is significantly more robust.
-For the adventurous, there are multiple community efforts enabling NixOS on the board, with various degrees of user friendliness, support availability or robustness, some of which can be found in the ''Other solutions'' section below. Amongst them, the community has flagged one repository that seems to have achieved a reasonable trade-off between all the necessary requirements for such a project; this is described in the ''Current Proposed Solution'' section below. While by no means official, and its level of support still under development, it is a good enough starting ground for people wanting to take advantage of their Raspberry Pi 5.
+For the adventurous, there are multiple community efforts enabling NixOS on the board, with various degrees of user friendliness, support availability or robustness, some of which can be found in the ''Other solutions'' section below. Amongst them, the community has flagged one repository that seems to have achieved a reasonable trade-off between all the necessary requirements for such a project; this is described in the ''Proposed Solution'' section below. While by no means official, and its level of support still under development, it is a good enough starting ground for people wanting to take advantage of their Raspberry Pi 5.
 However, this solution reuses proprietary software distributed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation; which is highly criticized by the NixOS community, and the Linux community at large, for reasons including reproducibility, transparency, security, predictibility, etc. There are efforts in the community to address these issues as well, and the following sub-section is an overview into these efforts.