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>The community consists mostly of programmers, which means I am missing some creative tools (mockups, mindmaps, ..). In the future I will be able to provide/build them myself, but it is not a smooth transition from my previous arch setup.
Any time you need a package that's not in nixpkgs, feel free to submit a packaging request for it:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/new/choose (Issues -> New Issue -> Packaging Request)
Especially if you explain that it's a popular tool in the creative community, that kind of thing is useful for the Nix packaging team to be made aware of. Even if someone doesn't package it right away, there's a good chance it will make it into the next 6-month release cycle.
I switched to NixOS half a year ago. The reason? I fell in love with literate programming (I use [1]); being able to write (and read) your whole OS configuration is the dream!
There are few bad sides to NixOS though.
The community consists mostly of programmers, which means I am missing some creative tools (mockups, mindmaps, ..). In the future I will be able to provide/build them myself, but it is not a smooth transition from my previous arch setup.
Also the whole documentation sucks: There are three (!) official manuals + the home-manager manual + Nix pills + YT + random blogs where I have to piece everything together.
Still I find NixOS superior to every other OS (windows, linux) I have tried so far. I just feel free and am not afraid to fuck up anything [2], as I can just go to a previous generation when it doesn't boot.
Lastly, as my config is in git, I am free to try new tools -- If I don't like them, I just remove their line in my config. No more chasing after random install folders!
[1]: https://github.com/driusan/lmt
That sounds like a nice way to do it, too. I heard about it before, but don't know R, so I didn't really consider it.
The reason I chose lmt is that it correctly keeps the markdown language syntax of the code blocks. That means I can put my literate config into my Zettelkasten [1] or [2] and watch it pretty-print in the browser.
There are also literate [3] and org-babel [4], but I don't think they are future proof. .lit is a random format and .org basically requires Emacs+orgmode.
1: https://github.com/srid/emanote
2: https://wiki.dendron.so/
3: https://github.com/zyedidia/Literate
4: https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/intro.html
That sounds like a nice way to do it, too. I heard about it before, but don't know R, so I didn't really consider it.
The reason I chose lmt is that it correctly keeps the markdown language syntax of the code blocks. That means I can put my literate config into my Zettelkasten [1] or [2] and watch it pretty-print in the browser.
There are also literate [3] and org-babel [4], but I don't think they are future proof. .lit is a random format and .org basically requires Emacs+orgmode.
1: https://github.com/srid/emanote
2: https://wiki.dendron.so/
3: https://github.com/zyedidia/Literate
4: https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/intro.html
That sounds like a nice way to do it, too. I heard about it before, but don't know R, so I didn't really consider it.
The reason I chose lmt is that it correctly keeps the markdown language syntax of the code blocks. That means I can put my literate config into my Zettelkasten [1] or [2] and watch it pretty-print in the browser.
There are also literate [3] and org-babel [4], but I don't think they are future proof. .lit is a random format and .org basically requires Emacs+orgmode.
1: https://github.com/srid/emanote
2: https://wiki.dendron.so/
3: https://github.com/zyedidia/Literate
4: https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/intro.html