The original goal was to have a system where all permanent installations and configurations are done only in this repository and pushed to the system via scripts. NixOS seemed like the way to go, but was ultimately too niche and difficult to get into for me.

Now I'm on Manjaro and the original dream died a little bit, but I plan to learn more about Ansible and return to NixOS on a spare machine sometime in the future.

Has been a nice experiment and NixOS is definitly a lot more user-friendly than a couple years ago, but still too much of a hassle for a personal desktop. Unless you really know your way about building from source, linux basics, and have the time to do these things. Or if you want to learn, rolling back after mistakes is super easy and you can try everything out. It's great to learn about linux, but maybe install it on a spare machine as it's quite difficult to be immediately productive.

Nix Pills

Nix Package Search

Nix Options Search

Nix Wiki

Nix Discourse

Still prefer Kakoune over Vim and everything else, and it's easier to get into. But less users means less support, documentation, and add-ons. It's great and I hope to come back one day, but for now learning to use Vim is a better investment.

Cheatsheet

Config Tutorial

Originally, this was based on the NixOS configuration files from alexherbo2