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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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[–] djw0bbl3@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

This is a good point. You could probably write a little tool that finds installed AURs, pacman, yum, apt packages and tries to find them in nixpkgs.