When you install any new distro, most of the time it does not come with the video and audio codecs to play videos online and offline. The best way in my opinion to use codecs without spending hours installing is: **Install needed apps as flatpak.** The most common apps that need codecs is browsers and video players like vlc and mpv. Just install them(Make sure you enable [flathub repo](https://flathub.org/)) as flatpak (installed by default in most distros) and you will not need to spend time installing codecs from untrusted third party repos ever again.

[Announcement on NixOS Discourse](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-init-generate-nix-packages-from-urls-with-hash-prefetching-dependency-inference-license-detection-and-more)  ### Features - Hash prefetching powered by [nurl] - Dependency inference for Rust packages using the [Riff](https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/riff) registry and python projects - Interactive prompts with fuzzy tab completions - License detection - Supported builders - `stdenv.mkDerivation` - `buildRustPackage` - `buildPythonApplication` and `buildPythonPackage` - `buildGoModule` - Supported fetchers - `fetchCrate` - `fetchFromGitHub` - `fetchFromGitLab` - `fetchFromGitea` - `fetchPypi` - All other fetchers supported by [nurl] are also supported, you just have to specify the tags manually ### Usage ``` Usage: nix-init [OPTIONS] <OUTPUT> Arguments: <OUTPUT> The path to output the generated file to Options: -u, --url <URL> Specify the URL -c, --config <CONFIG> Specify the config file -h, --help Print help -V, --version Print version ``` [nurl]: https://github.com/nix-community/nurl

Finally! Sucked when you opened a doc then closed the program, you couldn't open another doc without a system restart. Stoked its been addressed!