Re:NixOS for the Impatient
by indemnity on Friday June 09, 2023 @08:20PM
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Exactly. I have used Linux since 1994, from Slackware to RedHat to Debian to Gentoo to Ubuntu to Arch.
NixOS and nix-darwin both using nixpkgs is the first time I have the exact same shell and programming/CLI environment on all five of my personal and work machines which run Linux and macOS.
I upgraded them all to the 23.05 versions from 22.05 by updating my flake.lock and doing a rebuild switch on all machines. No regressions.
Some cobbled together shell scripts and a Git home dir management system (yadm) is what I had before and it doesn’t come close. I also dreaded upgrades with the previous approach. And didn’t have nearly the same control pristine replicated environment across machines.
It’s even flexible enough that on Linux desktop machines I have X11 and bspwm DE environment, on servers no X11, and on macOS it configures my system preferences, Dock icons and installed App Store apps.
NixOS and nix-darwin both using nixpkgs is the first time I have the exact same shell and programming/CLI environment on all five of my personal and work machines which run Linux and macOS.
I upgraded them all to the 23.05 versions from 22.05 by updating my flake.lock and doing a rebuild switch on all machines. No regressions.
Some cobbled together shell scripts and a Git home dir management system (yadm) is what I had before and it doesn’t come close. I also dreaded upgrades with the previous approach. And didn’t have nearly the same control pristine replicated environment across machines.
It’s even flexible enough that on Linux desktop machines I have X11 and bspwm DE environment, on servers no X11, and on macOS it configures my system preferences, Dock icons and installed App Store apps.