> add some basic packages to configuration.nix This includes understanding how nix configuration works, finding the packages you want, understanding how their

> add some basic packages to configuration.nix This includes understanding how nix configuration works, finding the packages you want, understanding how their configuration is mapped in to nix idiosyncratic way of configuring software which is not well documented, will most likely require you read the package and map yourself between the software doc and what nix changes, then properly structuring the config before applying it. This is not in any way simple.