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Re:A decade of dotfiles by doliveira on Monday May 30, 2022 @07:31AM (#31557888)
Oh, I so wish to learn it, seems quite awesome. I literally made my own scripts to do exactly this management over the years. But the learning curve seems huge, not many good resources, etc... Honestly they all sound like those posts trying to explain monads

And frankly, I barely have motivation to study more concrete stuff...

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Re:A decade of dotfiles by e3bc54b2 on Monday May 30, 2022 @08:43AM (#31558368)
Admittedly, it can be worse than sitting down and reading the manual front to back, but I did it the hard (or simple) way.

I used the simple template generated during nixos-install and kept adding packages I needed. Configured them manually as usual and went about my business. It works out more often than people would realize. For services, development toolchains etc just google and copy-paste from other people's config. Simply add 'ext:nix' to google query and you should be good.

I'm at almost 3 years, know just enough Nix to write some custom stuff, but nowhere close to the Wizard title. Its not as bad as people make it out.

Remember, your target is not to master it on day 1. Target is to get VLC to play the media file (or some equivalent for you).

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Re:A decade of dotfiles by klysm on Monday May 30, 2022 @01:24PM (#31561305)
As soon as you get something weird though, the rabbit hole is forever
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