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Re:SnowflakeOS: Beginner friendly and GUI focused NixOS variant by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday August 01, 2024 @01:06AM (#41126332)
> Will the GUI write my custom package nixfile for me?

What distro provides a GUI to write custom package specs for you?

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Re:SnowflakeOS: Beginner friendly and GUI focused NixOS variant by pxc on Thursday August 01, 2024 @04:17AM (#41127143)
A good editor and an LLM could maybe do something sort of useful for helping people customize packages. Used sparingly alongside programmatic generation of Nix code and old-fashioned templating, maybe it could even be reliable enough to be a win
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