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  • 10th June 2025

Fix for no audio in minimal templates in QubesOS

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The reason why audio won’t work out of the box in minimal templates (debian-12-minimal, fedora-41-minimal) is that the package responsible for sending audio from VMs to your host (dom0 or sys-audio), pipewire-qubes, isn’t included in them by default.

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  • 6th June 2025

How to run nix on qubes without crying (much)

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Nix is great for keeping your system clean and your sanity slightly intact. But thanks to how QubesOS handles templates and persistence, it’s not plug-and-play.

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  • 4th June 2025

Learn to use Nix (not NixOS) in 10 minutes

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After this guide, you will be able to:

  • replace apt or pacman with the nixpkgs package repository, even if you don’t care about declarativity
  • use home-manager to set up all your configs and apps declaratively with just one config file and use it on any machine
  • use any nixpkgs package one time only and without bloat, fix dependency hell and weird dependencies
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