#I switched to NixOS (👾🥳)
I recently switched to NixOS, mostly because I did not want to spend another time recreating my entire setup if my laptop broke again. (Which happenes to be expected at least every few months)
The setup usually took a few hours, even with the customization guide I wrote for the basics, and some things I always had not backed up anywhere or did not remember, so they were eventually lost.
And I know, sure, I could have used dotfiles and all kinds of stuff to still manage that a little better, and I tried, but it was just to much time & energy for me, to keep everything updated, every time I updated a small file somewhere, to remember to also stage the changes of this exact file, as of course all the config files were not in the same directory.
Now with NixOS, this all works better. Everything lives in /etc/nixos, all my apps, packages, configs, etc.
The random config I totally forgot and had no time to add to my dotfiles will be just added the next time
I change anything.
I already love it, and not just because of that. For me, this is the first time my system feels quite "clean",
even a few weeks after setting everything up.
There are no hidden or forgotten installed packages, not old deprecated stuff that did somehow not get fully removed.
Quite a good feeling.
I'm of course working further on moving some of my old configs into the nix space, but most of it is already there, migrated and ready for my laptop dying (please don't).
Moving was actually benefitial in other parts too, I started learning vim motions, and checked out nvim,
might switch after I get better in the motions.
I am considering switching from fish to zsh or similar, just to have a POSIX compliant shell,
switched from alacritty to ghostty (not too sure about that), as alacritty refused to correctly display my custom window button menu.
Little note to alacritty & ghostty, the startup time for alacritty is noticeable quicker than for ghostty, but I might get used to it, and I'm quite happy about a few things at ghostty, for example the great animation (
ghostty +boo), we need more of that :)
All in all, let's see how it goes