NixOS
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2025 5:18 pm
I'm currently taking the effort to port my entire operating system from arch to nixos, as declarative system config is incredibly appealing to me, however the learning curve is completely bonkers lmao.
Right now I've gotten past bootloader config problems (which wasn't exactly nix's fault; I just wasn't totally familiar with nix scripting so my debugging efforts were moderately kneecapped), nix flakes (goddamn those took a while to wrap my brain around), and now I'm going to dive into home manager and try to transfer over all of my dotfiles from arch.
Any nix users here that can offer any advice, do's, don't's, etc...?
Right now I've gotten past bootloader config problems (which wasn't exactly nix's fault; I just wasn't totally familiar with nix scripting so my debugging efforts were moderately kneecapped), nix flakes (goddamn those took a while to wrap my brain around), and now I'm going to dive into home manager and try to transfer over all of my dotfiles from arch.
Any nix users here that can offer any advice, do's, don't's, etc...?