(26-04-2021, 10:57 AM)venam Wrote: Alright, one of my favorite thread.
I've been trying out nix the past few days and as the people in this thread have noted, it's indeed a wonderful way to have less ties with a machine.
Do you have new tricks or ideas related to that topic? Maybe things related to nix or nixOS too?

I used to use NixOS, and from my experience with it, I'd recommend playing around with the (unstable) Flakes feature, which can be used to set up a new machine running NixOS with all of your dotfiles on it and all of your packages installed.

Along with this feature, I wrote a small shell script to run nix commands and sync my dotfiles, so instead of having to type out all the separate nix and git commands I could run to rebuild my configuration, to sync my local dotfiles with the ones on github, and to remove old generations and collect garbage, along with some other commands to do various things in NixOS.