Programming

I've been using NixOS for a year now, and I did use LLMs to set up a large part of my configuration: It's absolute amazing being able to share 1 configuration between multiple machines.

I also added a Justfile to hold a bunch of common commands, so I can never forget them :D

Just start out by throwing your hardware-configuration.nix and configuration.nix (from /etc/nix/configuration, IIRC) into a repo, and sudo nixos-rebuild switch as starting command (in that repo).

Also yes, each host will need its own hardware-configuration, but they can share a configuration.nix (to some extent), but just start by adding a list of programs from https://search.nixos.org/packages, oh and @vimjoyer IS the documentation.

Yeah, that paragraph is where I stopped reading lol

Blog post aside, NixOS is fantastic. Once you get the Nix DSL down, it makes everything so smooth once you know how to configure your system. The learning curve for me came not from the packages, but learning how to set up system/program configurations using configuration.nix, instead of the standard config files. But once you get that down, you can rebuild essentially the exact same system from a single file. I use it for my worker nodes on my server cluster, and it makes setup of new nodes a dream. Definitely recommend.

When installing a package is too hard, one simply should not use a PC. Maybe the nursing home would be a better place.