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Re:Spectrum OS: a declarative, reproducible, compartmentaliz... by lijogdfljk on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @10:25AM (#28539435)
Nope, but that's exactly what i had in mind when i said "put everything in my nix config". Any setting for my desktop, browser, etc would need to be in that config. The tempfs would just help me practice it.

Big PITA though, imo. At least until i'm "better" at Nix.

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Re:Spectrum OS: a declarative, reproducible, compartmentaliz... by SkyMarshal on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @07:21PM (#28545734)
I spent about 3-4 months learning Nix/OS this past spring/summer. After some trial and error and source code spelunking, I finally got my system working according to these two blog posts, with some tweaks [1]. It was a lot of work to ramp up that learning curve, but now that I have I don’t think I can ever go back to another standard Linux again. They all feel so messy and disorganized now by comparison.

[1]: Some things, notably containers like LXC/LXD, can’t work with tmpfs mounted to /var, /var has to be on disk, while the rest of / can be tmpfs.

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