one of the nicest things about nixos is illustrated here, where a concrete few tens of lines of code implement a feature that some consider to define an entire

one of the nicest things about nixos is illustrated here, where a concrete few tens of lines of code implement a feature that some consider to define an entire genre of distro as a teenager i ran gentoo & passively marvelled in the back of my head that this self-described “meta-distribution” was flexible enough to serve as the basis of chromeos or whatever it's no coincidence that “gentoo but Good Actually” was one of the descriptions i heard that convinced me to give nixos a spin, paralleled further by the fact that i unironically ran gentoo prefix on macos in lieu of homebrew/macports for a while, and would later go on to run nix-darwin this particular instance of flexibility, though, feeds back nicely into one of the bullet points on the nixos elevator pitch (one little config directory is all you need to care about outside /var or /home). in a sense, running this setup is putting your money where your mouth is as far as that claim is concerned. and hey whoa would you look at that, it works. neat!