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I think it’s about time I improved a bit on my Nix and NixOS knowledge, and I guess the best way is having someone more experienced critique my monstrosity of a setup.

Maybe it’s too modular? Not modular enough? Convoluted? Complete garbage altogether?

Go to the repo and find out! Just be sure to let me know after.

  • MadhuGururajan@programming.devEnglish
    61·
    2 days ago

    Includes Gnome

    LOL, LMAO even.

    (PS. since you said please. But I think it’s cool. (I guess? I am too much of a grandpa to care so: That’s lovely, my dear))

    • fullovellas@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      It’s a bit LMAO-worthy, yes. I have it mostly out fear some sofware might break on Hyprland at a bad time, and because I’m too lazy to look for some basic utilities separately.

      • MadhuGururajan@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        No I am in the same camp. I hate complexity. There’s too many crumbs of utilities to reassemble into the entire loaf of functionality. Hence I haven’t tried installing arch in a long while (I use endeavorOS as my daily) and I haven’t tried running nix. The need has not arisen yet.

        • fullovellas@lemm.eeOPEnglish
          6·
          2 days ago

          You’re missing out man, I’ve been daily driving NixOS for almost two years now and I can’t go back. It’s not that complex to set up and it’s great knowing most of what’s on your system at a glance by looking at a config file.

          • axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafeEnglish
            2·
            6 hours ago

            The learning curve is high when you’re starting out so expect to scratch your head in your first week. Once it clicks in, it’ll be smooth sailing after.

          • MadhuGururajan@programming.devEnglish
            5·
            2 days ago

            I was waiting for the itch to get worse so i can scratch it off… but you have convinced me enough to give it a go. Here’s hoping i don’t create an abomination!

    • fullovellas@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      I read your issue and you left some great advice. Thank you for taking the time to write something thoughtful! As you probably guessed I really had barely any idea of how the module system worked, but it’s nice seeing it’s a bit similar to Rust’s. I will look into the switch script, which will be convenient, and apply your suggestions, since I basically agree with all of them 🙌

    • jevans ⁂@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      recursiveMerge

      Can you explain how you would use this here? Would this make files like this in my config unnecessary?

      • lelgenio@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        I wasn’t very clear in how I wrote those points, I think you got it backwards.

        My points was that OP was using recursiveMerge, and I think that is not a very common or useful pattern to follow, because you evade the module system, for no good reason(?).

        I think you are already following the most common pattern out there. If you would like to, there are ways to avoid having a default.nix file for each module, but in my opinion that only makes it harder for other people to understand your modules.