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Installing an entire operating system to manage your dotfiles....seems reasonable
by SassyGrapefruit 5y ago
Installing an entire operating system to manage your dotfiles....seems reasonable
- mschwaig 5y agoBig disclaimer: I have only used home-manager on NixOS. The main development target for the project seems to be NixOS, but you can install it on other Linux distribution or macOS as well. It just depends on the Nix Package Manager, which you need to install, not on NixOS. The home-manager manual describes a standalone (not integrated with NixOS) setup with flakes here: https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/index.html#ch-nix-flakes https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/index.html#ch-n...
- myme 5y agoLove this! I should add that my Nix endeavors begun way back when I started doing Haskell because of the binary caching for Haskell libs. Nix has then gradually taken over pretty much everything I do related to software. So the OS switch was inevitable.