dotfiles

I'd prefer not to share my personal git repo as it would reveal my identity, but I based it on these: https://github.com/MatthewCroughan/nixcfg https://github.com/hlissner/dotfiles https://github.com/georgewhewell/nixos-host https://github.com/ipetkov/dotfiles There's also the DevOS project, which is an attempt to create a base of boilerplate than anyone can use as a start to build a system: https://devos.divnix.com/ Recommendations: * Definitely use flakes * Use Agenix to store secrets out in the open (encrypted with your SSH key) * Use home-manager * Keep config modular so you can selectively include it in various hosts and domains (e.g. desktop vs server). Think of it as building software when you figure out how to organize your config. The bulletpoints above can all be a bit difficult to figure out so don't feel bad if you don't get

I tried using NixOS on a laptop for a month and switched back to Arch a couple of months ago. It was an interesting experience - I never used functional programming language before, but nix was pretty ok as a configuration language. It looks like funny version of JSON with functions. Debugging it was a real pain though - I was trying to write (or copy from someone else config) a function to recursively import all modules from a folder and the error messages were hard to understand with stacktraces ending somewhere deep in standard library. The other problem was with nixpkgs, i.e. I haven't found a clear list of packages that were going to be updated. Jetbrains IDEA was updating very slowly and when I wanted to pin a version of it simply overriding version variable in the overlay was not enough - there were also some other linked variables

The NixOS wiki has a good comparison page for templates like devos: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Comparison_of_NixOS_setups This is the other big one (most stars): https://github.com/hlissner/dotfiles

> I am far past the days where I'd delight in tweaking my Linux installation to my personal tastes. If I could have a git repo with a static config that just built my OS the way I like it with minimal messing around, I would love that. I've heard NixOS is meant to work like that but I haven't found the time to try it. NixOS is neat. And "OS setup from git repo" is something NixOS is excellent at. However, the effort it would take for you to come up with your own NixOS configuration would be much greater than what it would take for you to just re-configure your system each time & keep notes (or write the commands down as scripts). I think the dissuading points under "Should I use NixOS?" are pretty good. https://github.com/hlissner/dotfiles#frequently-asked-questi...