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How to prepare a configuration.nix prior to installing NixOS (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by zxjk-io@alien.top to c/nix@lemmy.nix-community.org
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Hello, hope your all well?

So I'm about to install NixOS on my primary workstation. I've been tinkering on an old laptop, learning flakes, getting to grips with home-manager and the nix commands especially garbage collection.

So the configuration.nix I've created on my laptop, isn't all the tooling I'll use on my workstation and honestly, I can remember half the stuff I've installed or tools I install along the way.

So here is my actual question is there anything like a nix config generator, where I can cherry pick apps, services and utilities?

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[–] orgkhnargh@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are the configuration.nix generator.

[–] zxjk-io@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thought as much, Oh well it would have been nice if it was possible to select, devops engineer working with .net core and java microservices and Azure functions. Then you'd get all the basics in one bundle docker, azure-cli,ps, .net sdk, openjdk,kubectl,k9s and then build on that.

I fully accept that many people have many use-cases but there is a lot of commonality, Ubuntu knocks out things like DAW, Kali has a load of preloaded tools Sci linux again comes with pre-loading.

The graphical installer let's you chose a DE so y'know a basic workflow bundle.

My first week with NixOs I had to clear out 30 odd generations because I was doing oh! yeh, and this

[–] art2266@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe something like these? The pulumi one is similar to the example you mentioned.

In case you're not familiar with a direnv+nix workflow, find a good starting point here.

[–] zxjk-io@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Wow that repo is brilliant, thank you so much