Nix on Sailfish X (Sailfish OS for Sony Xperia): Drowning in software from Nixpkgs, the largest software package set

Abstract Sailfish OS is a partially-open, GNU/Linux-based mobile OS to compete with the U.S.-based, privacy-draining, you-no-longer-truly-own-your-device,nannying Android / iOS duopoly. That was a mouthful, but we need to address the fact that we need to be taking back our freedoms, privacy, sovereignty from these megacorporations. Step one is planning your duopoly off-ramp — & while there are quite a few Linux options, Sailfish OS is a viable one of those options & the one I chose (since I like Sony hardware, & you will want microSD support for a Linux phone — if not for your phones generally until the OEMs too them away from us). We will be looking to augment the small package set Jolla provides by installing Nix + Nixpkgs, which will give us access to the largest package set for software out there where much of it is compiled for aarch64 consumption! This is the set up I chose (& would recommend given it’s what I did), but readers are to take part of the free part of free software…