Just yesterday afternoon I picked up my old laptop from 2015, and thanks to NixOS [0] + versioning my home folder [1] in a couple of hours (of mostly waiting fo

Just yesterday afternoon I picked up my old laptop from 2015, and thanks to NixOS [0] + versioning my home folder [1] in a couple of hours (of mostly waiting for the thing to finish downloading stuff) I had my usual setup running with everything configured - like everything: settings, packages, emacs, shell, wallpapers, etc NixOS stable is "extremely stable" (i.e. it never broke for me in three years that I use it) and "upgrading it" is still two commands away Another interesting part is that now that I run it on all machines it is really easy to sync the configuration between machines, as they _literally_ share the same config barring something like 20 custom lines for every machine This stuff used to take _days_, I'm so happy with this thing [0]: https://nixos.org/ https://nixos.org/ [1]: https://github.com/f-f/home https://github.com/f-f/home