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A comment on NixOS RFC 136 approved: A plan to stabilize the new CLI and Flakes incrementally.

Re:NixOS RFC 136 approved: A plan to stabilize the new CLI a... by 1attice on Saturday August 12, 2023 @09:50PM (#37105887)
NixOS is honestly so beautiful and rare. I'm delighted that the project is moving forward in this way.

A friend of mine called it a "rabbit hole" but TBH it's words of power -- I can speak new instances of my environment into existence, not only on newly-acquired compute devices, but on other OSes as well (I put some effort into segmenting the user environment and system config between home-manager and standard /etc/nixos/*)

Nix flakes will only make me more powerful

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Re:NixOS RFC 136 approved: A plan to stabilize the new CLI a... by fortunateregard on Sunday August 13, 2023 @02:53AM (#37107315)
> I can speak new instances of my environment into existence

You're not kidding. I used nixos-anywhere [1] for the first time the other day. You can point it to any linux host and it will partition, format, and supplant the target's existing OS with your nixOS config, all with a single command. Incredible.

[1] https://github.com/numtide/nixos-anywhere

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