Re:One Week of NixOS
by diggan on Sunday November 08, 2020 @07:27AM
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My understanding of it that you really want to have two different configurations, one that is system/hardware specific and one that is "user" specific. So let's say I have a desktop + laptop I want to run NixOS with, I'd want the hardware config to be different on them, but with the same user-land config. Hence the installation config is usually automatically setup at installation time, and then the user config is put in place.
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This is about right but let me clarify a bit.
The configuration.nix system configuration can be moved between systems, but imports a generated hardware-configuration.nix that really should not be moved between systems.
If you don't want user and system specific configuration to intermix by having user-specific software in your system configuration and you want to manage you the dotfiles in your home directory in the style of Nix there is another popular project called home-manager which enables that, but that's totally optional.