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NixOS is the endgame of distrohopping - Joshua Blais (joshblais.com)
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[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hey do we have a central place with everyone's configuration file ? configuration.nix or nix.conf or whatever it is ?

I just want to copy and paste, whatever I want on my system without sacrificing multiple of my precious weekends to the linux gods

Or better yet, can I have some config file editor where I can just toggle kde + nvidia drivers + xlibre + sunshine + steam + libreoffice + lutris and just go already ?

[–] ruffsl@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

Hey do we have a central place with everyone’s configuration file ?

As roundabout as it sounds I've had good luck using GitHub's code search with language:nix and path:flake.nix modifiers.

E.g, I was looking for complete flake examples to overlay nvidia drivers from the unstable branch/channel, I used this regex:

Most folks publishing their configs often have more advance setups, but still nice trace git blame to learn how they evolved.

some config file editor where I can just toggle kde + nvidia drivers +

There is SnowflakeOS this kind of stalled, but that could change with recent improvements to structured edits of Nix: