Any ideas what to add to my list of NixOS things to do?
2026-08-03 17:37 UTC
Replies (11)
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@libewa@feddit.org 2026-08-03 18:04
Create your own Codeberg repo for your configuration Use Neovim, maybe with Nixvim
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@ellen@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-08-03 18:31
Maybe look into something like impermanence and having root on tmpfs. It’s what made NixOS really “click” for me.
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@FishFace@piefed.social 2026-08-03 19:37
Have you considered using your computer as a computer instead of configuring it?
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@NewOldGuard@lemmy.ml 2026-08-03 20:17
Tailscale is pretty straightforward because they have a config for it baked in, pretty sure it’s just services.tailscale.enable = true. But if you use it with the operator=$USER setting, note that you still need to run tailscale with sudo for your initial login before that works properly
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@juipeltje@lemmy.world 2026-08-03 20:36
Try VIM Emacs instead of Nano ;)
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@mlg@lemmy.world 2026-08-03 21:18
Try Micro which is apparently based off of MicroEmacs lol
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@Auth@lemmy.world 2026-08-03 22:18
Is there a single thing nix does that isnt easier to do with a simple bash script applied over whatever your favorite distro is? Reproducible builds is all that comes to mind Some things you could do is apply theming in an autistic nix way, configure some services to auto run and setup monitoring and reporting for them.
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@sudoer777@lemmy.ml 2026-08-03 23:48
I have an endless list of configuration changes to make, but security hardening with nix-mineral and impermanence, and using den to organize if you have a lot of hosts/users are options I recommend. Also if you have a spare laptop lying around, I use that for hacky NixOS experimentation.
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@ivn@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 2026-08-04 00:41
Stylix to have consistent theme Nixvim to configure nvim using nix For emacs there is nix-doom-emacs-unstraightened but I’ve not tried it and I would recommend trying Doom Emacs first devenv for per project nix managed dev environments That’s all I can think about that’s unique to nix. The rest is about configuring your DE, WM, terminal, shell, apps… how you like it like in any other distro, just through nix instead.
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@jenesaisquoi@feddit.org 2026-08-04 08:14
Install and learn Rust, and then reimplement something in Rust
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@IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world 2026-08-04 23:35
Maybe implement disko? It do be tough and I haven’t done it.