This configuration is specifically intended for x86_64-linux and likely
wouldn't work on aarch64-linux. Additionally, the configuration name may
be different than the hostname if desired.
It seems like all wine windows may be broken, although there doesn't
seem to be an easy way to allow the resizing of all wine windows without
affecting other windows. In practice this *shouldn't* matter much,
however.
wineWowPackages.stagingFull has better compatibility than waylandFull
and runs more applications without black screens. The difference between
stagingFull and wine-ge is that wine-ge doesn't crash when encountering
an error like ELFCLASS64 and usually opens windows larger and
fullscreen-like.
The reason stagingFull is preferred over wine-ge in this case is that
stagingFull is a part of nixpkgs and doesn't suffer from a black screen
bug when a hidden menu pushes the content in the window viewport down.
Additionally, although wine-ge avoids crashes in more cases, this
results in applications running that may or may not fully work, and
sometimes results in black screens where there should be graphics
instead.
This was a different wine version that let me achieve better
compatibility with Unity3D programs. Although it doesn't crash when
encountering a ELFCLASS64 error, for example, it does have other issues
like a black screen flash when opening a hidden menu (the kind that
become available with the alt key on a keyboard).
Now that I have figured out how to get all the Windows applications I
previously used working under Wine (including those that didn't work in
the virtual machine after trying to manually install dependencies) there
is no reason for me to use vmware.
Using NixOS for Windows applications allows them to be used with
systemd-nspawn containers, thus achieving things like isolation, private
networks, impermanence, and more. All of this without having to maintain
a separate operating system install.
No ports need to be forwarded right now, however this is a good example
for when ports need to be forwarded from a container to the host in the
future.
Now I don't have to wait for anything to be included in nixos-unstable
and can simply merge whatever I want whenever I want. This also has the
advantage of not having to specify which input is needed to get a
package from.
Now that I am able to understand and read NixOS/nixpkgs source code, I
understand that the usage of the npm module isn't needed since I don't
configure npm at a global level.
