Monster (lemmy.world)
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[–] 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The docs for NixOS aren't good. Much knowledge is on many blogs but who knows them all?

Having the OS defined declaratively is great but I also dislike the Nix language.

Once it's setup NixOS is great. Sharing configs with PC and laptop is awesome. Rollbacks are baked in.

Going off the https://github.com/Misterio77/nix-starter-configs helped me gettung started.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    I absolutely loved NixOS on paper, and it's undoubtedly the best way to combat updates that break my dependency trees, but I still found myself spending a majority of my time attempting to hard-code various app configuration files into my convoluted configuration.nix with its esoteric syntax rather than actually using my computer. Am I missing something, or does a good install script covering my favorite packages and a git bare repo storing my dot-files get me 90% of the way there without the hassle of bending my whole OS around a single nix config monstrosity?

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