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I think it's about time I improved a bit on my Nix and NixOS knowledge, and I guess the best way is having someone more experienced critique my monstrosity of a setup.

Maybe it's too modular? Not modular enough? Convoluted? Complete garbage altogether?

Go to the repo and find out! Just be sure to let me know after.

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[–] MadhuGururajan@programming.dev 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Includes Gnome

LOL, LMAO even.

(PS. since you said please. But I think it's cool. (I guess? I am too much of a grandpa to care so: That's lovely, my dear))

[–] fullovellas@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's a bit LMAO-worthy, yes. I have it mostly out fear some sofware might break on Hyprland at a bad time, and because I'm too lazy to look for some basic utilities separately.

[–] MadhuGururajan@programming.dev 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No I am in the same camp. I hate complexity. There's too many crumbs of utilities to reassemble into the entire loaf of functionality. Hence I haven't tried installing arch in a long while (I use endeavorOS as my daily) and I haven't tried running nix. The need has not arisen yet.

[–] fullovellas@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You're missing out man, I've been daily driving NixOS for almost two years now and I can't go back. It's not that complex to set up and it's great knowing most of what's on your system at a glance by looking at a config file.

[–] MadhuGururajan@programming.dev 0 points 11 months ago

I was waiting for the itch to get worse so i can scratch it off.. but you have convinced me enough to give it a go. Here's hoping i don't create an abomination!

[–] axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 0 points 11 months ago

The learning curve is high when you're starting out so expect to scratch your head in your first week. Once it clicks in, it'll be smooth sailing after.

[–] lelgenio@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] fullovellas@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I read your issue and you left some great advice. Thank you for taking the time to write something thoughtful! As you probably guessed I really had barely any idea of how the module system worked, but it's nice seeing it's a bit similar to Rust's. I will look into the switch script, which will be convenient, and apply your suggestions, since I basically agree with all of them 🙌

[–] lelgenio@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 months ago