Nixos-Config Alternatives

Nixos-Config reviews and mentions

• [QUENTIONS] NixOS version migration | Home-manager standalone to module migration | etc...
  1 project | /r/NixOS | 26 Jun 2023

  If you're using flakes, you could look at my config where I use different versions of nixpkgs. You set the other version as an input and a nixpkgs overlay, and then you're able to say unstable.package-name to install the unstable package. Downgrading from unstable to stable should just work by changing the nixpkgs version I believe.

• Checklist for converting a system to flakes?
  1 project | /r/NixOS | 27 May 2023

  Here's the commit where I switched my config to Flakes: https://github.com/K1aymore/Nixos-Config/commit/bdaa0ba54c8f64ecdd529ad6782863fadbc46aef.

• How long did it take you to really grok Nix(OS)?
  2 projects | /r/NixOS | 23 Feb 2023

  Understanding how your config works in the first week is pretty good I'd say. Example configs that search engines find always seem to be pretty complicated, maybe the people who do lots of complicated stuff are more likely to post their configs. And when you look at other people's configs you don't know how they organized it or which config files are important and which aren't, which makes it a bit harder to understand. My config isn't anything special but if you want I'll post it here.

• Tips on transfer from VM to Bare Metal
  1 project | /r/NixOS | 23 Sep 2022

  For the hardware config file, if you only have one device you could just leave it with your other configs I guess. Because I share my config between devices what I do is I store my configs in /nix/cfg, and in /etc/nixos/config.nix I import /nix/cfg/pc.nix or laptop.nix or whichever per device. Then, in order to have /etc/nixos stored with the rest of my config, in /nix/cfg/impermanence/system.nix I link /nix/cfg/persist/${config.networking.hostName} with /etc/nixos, so like on my pc it uses /nix/cfg/persist/pc/etc/nixos and on my laptop it uses /nix/cfg/persist/laptop/etc/nixos. Now that I think about it that's a little unnecesarry, but I have adjusted my hardware config a bit so I like having it in my git repo with the rest of my config.

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