• sus@programming.dev
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    26 days ago

    with nixos, the states of all the config files are collected into the nix configuration which you can modify manually. And if there’s something that can’t be handled through that, I think the common solution is to isolate the “dirty” environment into a vm or some other sort of container that I think comes with nixos

    (and there’s always going to be “data” which isn’t part of the “configuration” … which can just be used as a configuration for individual applications)

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      26 days ago

      with nixos, the states of all the config files are collected into the nix configuration which you can modify manually.

      Okay now that’s cool. Now I’m getting it.

      I guess that happens even if you install nix in another OS?