Switching To Nixos by Marcos Benevides
After quite some time being a Debian user I’ve decided to become a full time meme distro user. At first I was following some of the manuals in an attempt to recreate my config in virtualbox. A day later this distro seemed too cool not to try it out for real, so why not?
It’s kinda weird to adapt, in Debian I was accostumed to just run a command here
and there and have a bunch of config files across my system, with Nix (the
configuration language) one can have a single file (configuration.nix) to
manager everything and, since Nix is also a programming language, you can
modularize it to make things easier to manage. NixOS is also quite forgiving
when it comes to experimenting, you can always rollback your entire system to a
previous generation if something explodes. The #nixos community on both
freenode and discourse is also very helpful.
If you wanna see my crappy config just take a look here.