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[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

NixOS has some neat ideas but goes to the deep end implementing a near-perfect design of those ideas. If you need those ideas, it's really great.

I'm fantasizing about doing a lipstick-on-pig kind of a facsimile of NixOS on top of Arch Linux.

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nixpkgs and home manager on top of Arch is a nice hybrid system. I gave up on the idea for my PC because it enforces a level of tidiness that I'm not always on board with. Sometimes I do Evil Things to my computer and leave garbage lying around. It doesn't complain, and I'd shoot it if it did

[–] chasteinsect@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

Did not know that is something people do on arch!