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    [–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 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.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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?

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    Agreed, I'm also considering switching to an install script + btrfs snapshots. It worked quite well a few years ago, altough it doesn't solve configuration drift.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    Only if you reinstall every time you change the configuration. And never need to do anything remotely fancy.