NixOS a year later
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Continuing the story about migrating to NixOS Part 3. The migration itself. Interestingly, I only use USB flash drives to install a new OS; the rest of the time I don't need them. So for the second time in 5 years I dusted one off and flashed the NixOS image onto it with dd. At least it wasn't a CD-R, like I had to do …

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Let's continue the series of notes about migrating to NixOS. Part 2. Preparation 1️⃣ Once the decision to migrate had been made, I needed to figure out how to do it as painlessly as possible while accounting for the specifics of NixOS, such as, for example, the declarative configuration of the whole system. 🤓 I read …

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If you use Linux as your working system, you've almost certainly run into the need to configure the system to your liking after a fresh install. This is especially critical if you use several devices for work. Ideas like ansible or homegrown scripts that install packages and apply a configuration come to mind. However, …

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