Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012)

Re:Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012) by DoneWithAllThat on Thursday August 11, 2022 @02:36PM (#32429939)

> Unfortunately, it is quite possible to get difficult to understand errors when working with Home Manager, such as infinite loops with no clear source reference. You should therefore be comfortable using the Nix language and the various tools in the Nix ecosystem. Reading through the Nix Pills document is a good way to familiarize yourself with them.

Thanks, but I’ll just deal with a bunch of dotfiles. This sounds an awful lot like a “and now you have two problems” situation.

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Re:Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012) by colordrops on Thursday August 11, 2022 @03:35PM (#32430694)

Whatever works for you, but it's not really a fair characterization. It adds one problem and solves another dozen, at least in my case. And I don't really run into these difficult to diagnose issues too often.

It's like driving a car instead of walking is trading one problem for two.

I'm to blame actually, it does a lot more than config management, so I mischaracterized it myself.

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Re:Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012) by willmorrison on Thursday August 11, 2022 @03:55PM (#32430943)

Home Manager really doesn’t lead to many problems, and if you encounter any the NixOS community is wonderful. You can set up everything without understanding much of the Nix language by looking at other people’s configs on GitHub.

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Re:Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012) by ben0x539 on Thursday August 11, 2022 @04:29PM (#32431309)

The new problem is pretty fun though!

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