I tried out nixos (the complete distro based on nix) on the weekend -- it's not saying too much that it's a revelation. I can see myself completely switching fo

I tried out nixos (the complete distro based on nix) on the weekend -- it's not saying too much that it's a revelation. I can see myself completely switching for my development machines and possibly for servers as well. The amazing thing is that the whole set up of your linux machine is encaptulated in one declarative text file (that you can put in version control). Give it a try by installing it using VirtualBox: https://nixos.org/wiki/Installing_NixOS_in_a_VirtualBox_guest https://nixos.org/wiki/Installing_NixOS_in_a_VirtualBox_gues.... You can log in (demo/demo in the 14.10 vm) and play around, essentially be editing `/etc/nixos/configuration.nix`. I recommend trying the configuration of an experienced user. Here's the result of a simple search on github: https://github.com/sitano/configuration.nix https://github.com/sitano/configuration.nix https://github.com/Hinidu/configuration.nix https://github.com/Hinidu/configuration.nix https://github.com/garbas/nixos-configuration https://github.com/garbas/nixos-configuration You can also get started very easily using a ec2 tiny instance (free tier): https://nixos.org/wiki/NixOS_on_Amazon_EC2 https://nixos.org/wiki/NixOS_on_Amazon_EC2