Just migrated from Arch to NixOS recently. Nix+Flakes+Home-manager define my entire system, including config files and pinned package versions, using three files. My system has never felt more stable and reproducible. I even found a flake which lets you declaratively manage Flatpaks (nix-flatpak).

[–] dmalteseknight@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah helix has become my main editor since it comes with batteries included. I do miss the vim bindings though.

I am currently in the process of setting up nix but it is a bit of rabbit hole.

[–] featured@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It’s definitely a rabbit hole and it took me a few tries to stick with it, but after getting off the ground I don’t think I could ever go back.

Here are some helpful resources for using NixOS:

This video helped me understand the basic setup of flakes and home manager, as well as general NixOS syntax.

This site from Nix lets you look up every package on the repository, and if you click options at the top you can also search through every option related to your system and packages as well.

If you decide to use home manager for declaring user packages and dotfiles, I have been using this site which is similar to the official Nix search but specifically for home manager stuff.

Hope it helps :)

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