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Blog author here, indeed I like NixOS, but I don't have the time to generate an entire nix file for a working desktop. I have some friends that do it and that's
by jcastro 6y ago
Blog author here, indeed I like NixOS, but I don't have the time to generate an entire nix file for a working desktop. I have some friends that do it and that's great, but there's no "Get you 90% there" installation option afaict. I just don't have the time for that.
That being said I use nix on my systems, just as a package manager to some existing boxes.
- siraben 6y agoThe default configuration.nix created by the NixOS installer[0] is a KDE environment already, and it's relatively simple to expand and iterate your system configuration (no restart required!). Personally for me the hardest part was figuring out partitioning (since I rarely do that), but YMMV. Hope you try it sometime! [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/77297a7519b3d968f32abdd5a71ff03b9151131b/nixos/modules/installer/tools/tools.nix#L108 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/77297a7519b3d968f32abd...
- jcastro 6y agoYeah, I would love to see a repo with more example configs, for example "This one looks like Ubuntu, this one is more XFCE focused, here's a tiling wm one." and so on.
- pknopf 6y agoIf you are more comfortable with apt/Ubuntu/Debian, you could use Darch: https://github.com/pauldotknopf/darch-recipes https://github.com/pauldotknopf/darch-recipes There are also base images for Arch and Void.