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the ultimate bikeshedding with dotfiles is home-manager with nix, an infinite cacophony of deep pain and enlightened pleasure
by gbrindisi 2y ago
the ultimate bikeshedding with dotfiles is home-manager with nix, an infinite cacophony of deep pain and enlightened pleasure
- yoyohello13 2y agoYes, I've gone through every style of dotfile management. Stow, bare git repo, custom script, and now nix with home-manager. Using Nix is definitely the best solution so far, largely because not only does it manage the configurations, but also installs the programs you need.
- rgoulter 2y agoPlus, Nix allows for installing the same versions of those programs everywhere you're using Nix.
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y agoThe one thing that makes me hesitate with nix is that it only really supports Linux and Darwin; of the BSDs only FreeBSD has any support (somewhat suboptimal still), and AIUI Windows is also unsupported.