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Re:NixOS 21.05 by Sleepytime on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @12:31PM (#27370694)
>It doesn't work so well for I borrowed my coworker's computer for 5 minutes and want to use my own Vim configuration

You could use something like nixos-shell[1] to spin up a headless VM of your machine into your current shell.

[1]https://github.com/Mic92/nixos-shell

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Re:NixOS 21.05 by gmfawcett on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @01:57PM (#27371878)
Well that is pretty neat. Thanks for the mention of nixos-shell. I've been a NixOS daily-driver for the past 6 months or so, but I am still picking up new ideas on a daily basis. :)
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Re:NixOS 21.05 by Sleepytime on Friday June 04, 2021 @10:57PM (#27401672)
It's been my daily for not much longer than that, and almost every time I play with NixOS itself I get the sense of wonder and possibility in computers that I haven't had since I was a teenager. It's definitely a force multiplier.
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