nix

nix flake with my personal default settings ⚠️ Copy bits and pieces at your own risk (by stapelberg)

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  • I like to install NixOS (declaratively)
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Jun 2025
    Yes, I use this same config snippet throughout my installs and haven’t gotten around to managing my home with Nix yet.

    Later, I refactored this config snippet into a Flake that I include: https://github.com/stapelberg/nix/ …but that’s for a follow-up blog post :)

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stapelberg/nix is an open source project licensed under BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of nix is Nix.


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