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Re:My First Impressions of Nix by ElectricalUnion on Monday June 19, 2023 @03:37PM (#36395609)
> NixOS doesn't have, like, a profile switcher to let you switch between work mode and play mode on the same PC.

I thought that `sudo nixos-rebuild switch` was supposed to do exactly that; swap from whatever "state" your PC is on to the result of the nix expresison on "/etc/nixos/configuration.nix"

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Re:My First Impressions of Nix by hamandcheese on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @10:55PM (#36427500)
Yes, that is how you update your system.

But it would be very unusual to constantly switch between two long-lived configs. I don't see why it wouldn't work, though.

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