McMahon reaction meme depicting increasing satisfaction. Descriptions read as follows:
- “You discover a new app”
- “It’s in Nixpkgs”
- “It has a NixOS module”
- “It has a Home Manager module”
- “It has a Stylix module which makes it look awesome”
I’ve been maining Linux for a decade and I’m completely lost. I think I need to catch up
Don’t worry, nothing about Linux was spoken here.
Someday I’m gonna check out NixOS
The home manager documentation bothers me a lot
Usually, https://home-manager-options.extranix.com/ is all I need. For the inital setup there are plenty of blog posts and wiki articles.
Ah cool, I’ll check it out.
Yeah that’s what i use now too. The official home manager page kinda sucks purely because it has no search function. You’re scrolling forever until you finally find what you’re looking for lol.
confused Guix noises
While i like NixOS as an entire OS as well, at the moment i’m experimenting with just using nix + home manager on top of whatever distro i want, and i just had the realization that in the rare case that a package is not in nixpkgs, if you make your own derivation for it to build it from source, you can take that with you anywhere as well and don’t have to make another package for different distros you might be running. Pretty cool.
