Post #1998874
2026-05-04 04:40 UTC
I've used Arch as my daily for so many years now, it is a little tricky moving from imperative to declarative configuration. I'm treating my NixOS machine more as long term maintenance, so I'm not using the most bleeding edge packages. You can do that though by pointing to nixos-unstable.
I plan on using flakes for pinning and home-manager for writing ~/.config configurations, but I don't think I really need it, more just to learn how. With home-manager, I could rebuild this machine from scratch (including individual application preferences/settings) just with the backed up configs. I can at any point rollback to any saved previous generation though, too, just by restarting the machine.
I've really been impressed with it though. To the point, I will probably be moving my Arch DIY router over and converting it to NixOS.
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@Maiq@piefed.social 2026-05-04 04:59
Thanks, maybe I’ll give it a shot soon.