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| author | Katharina Fey <kookie@spacekookie.de> | 2019-04-08 00:56:12 +0200 |
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| committer | Katharina Fey <kookie@spacekookie.de> | 2019-04-08 00:56:12 +0200 |
| commit | 6beda7e4395ecb90794522dbe7b7f7e3f361566e (patch) | |
| tree | 8b85370ec253c969a9d6ed3c0dbef274fb7944be | |
| parent | 8c74821dea88745d5d6eb63aa865b51d3d0a9057 (diff) | |
Publishing home-manager article
| -rw-r--r-- | content/blog/102_home_manager.md | 10 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/content/blog/102_home_manager.md b/content/blog/102_home_manager.md index f5c71cf..c753e7b 100644 --- a/content/blog/102_home_manager.md +++ b/content/blog/102_home_manager.md @@ -1,8 +1,7 @@ Title: `home-manager`. Or: how not to yakhave Category: Blog Tags: /dev/diary, reflections, programming, nix -Status: Draft -Date: 2018-12-07 +Date: 2019-03-21 Don't expect the bait-and-switch titles to remain forever. I just thought it was fitting for this one too 😉. @@ -20,8 +19,7 @@ or nobody had come at the problem from the same angle as me before. This is not to bash on other projects or solutions. I know many people who are very happy with either keeping their dotfiles in a large git repo, symlinking manually, -making `~` a git repo or using various tools that automate the symlink -process. +making `~` a git repo or using various tools that automate the symlink process. The problem I had was that not all my computers were the same. As in, I didn't neccessarily want the same configs on all of them. @@ -42,7 +40,7 @@ So nothing happened for a while. Until recently. In case you don't know it, `nix` is a functional programming language and pure package-manager for unix systems. -Yes, that includes MacOS and whatnot. +Yes, that includes MacOS. There is a linux distribution built around it called [NixOS] which utilises `nix` as a package manager and configuration language heavily. @@ -67,7 +65,7 @@ Yes, that's right: no more "DLL hell"! Well okay so why am I fangirling about `nix` here? Apart from the fact that I've been dabbling with NixOS quite a bit recently, -wanting to replace all my [Arch] installs with NixOS... +to the point where I have basically replaced all my [Arch] installs with NixOS now... [Arch]: https://archlinux.org |