I've been running NixOS for 2 months having had my eye on it for a while.
So far I feel like I'm making progress. Having started from the masochism of Gentoo followed by the relatively lesser masochism of Arch my feeling is at least these hours of configurating are not being poured into the void but will have a substantially longer payback period. Reinstalling Arch or Gentoo always inevitably involved a large amount of remembering long forgotten config incantations which despite a certain number of git configuration repos for system and home and some scripted installation tended not to avoid a significant amount of tedious unfulfilling grunt work at the bootstrapping console.
Mind you I'm interested in views from those who are further along and feeling the pain. I can well believe that that getting to the first '80% how I want things' configuration might be much easier than the next 10% on the same path.
I'm using unstable, flakes, and home manager as a module in the main configuration.nix.
The language doesn't feel particularly arcane or difficult though so I don't relate to that complaint yet. As others have mentioned. A few fairly standard functional features (recursion, destructuring, first class functions) plus JSON sounds about right.
It's a pretty good ride still (depending what you need). I tend to run a tiling wm with lots of customization and it's great to just have all these tools and behavior synced everywhere. I build emacs from scratch with lots of packages and special config. I have neovim with all the goodies, firefox installing with the plugins and config I want.
All automatically synced between my machines. I also really pushed myself to learn to maintain nixpkgs. It's been tough, but definitely worth it.
Thanks for the config it looks interesting and quite mature, the possibility of sharing such kind of has me on board.
Incidentally I was coming from i3 (xmonad before but wanted something I could switch over to wayland where I could watch video like its 1995). Never in love with configuring all my own task bar, power management, disk mounting, screenshot program, rubbish task launcher with no icons, etc. but did it anyway for the sake of beautiful ceramic tiles... I've been playing with pop shell gnome extension for creature comforts, which via dconf plugin of home manager actually seems text configurable. Not that I've done it yet.
See you are using sway, ever considered going IKEA with gnome?
I've used Gnome a lot in my past. Also KDE since the early betas. At some point I just found out how tiling wms are kind of nice. After that it's no going back. It's like learning vim and then trying to go back to an editor with no modal editing.
Like. I need my editor, a browser, a few chat apps, music and lots of terminals. And I've used this config since i3 already for maybe over a decade. Every damn keyboard shortcut has been there for a long time. It's kind of hard to learn out of that...
So far I feel like I'm making progress. Having started from the masochism of Gentoo followed by the relatively lesser masochism of Arch my feeling is at least these hours of configurating are not being poured into the void but will have a substantially longer payback period. Reinstalling Arch or Gentoo always inevitably involved a large amount of remembering long forgotten config incantations which despite a certain number of git configuration repos for system and home and some scripted installation tended not to avoid a significant amount of tedious unfulfilling grunt work at the bootstrapping console.
Mind you I'm interested in views from those who are further along and feeling the pain. I can well believe that that getting to the first '80% how I want things' configuration might be much easier than the next 10% on the same path.
I'm using unstable, flakes, and home manager as a module in the main configuration.nix.
The language doesn't feel particularly arcane or difficult though so I don't relate to that complaint yet. As others have mentioned. A few fairly standard functional features (recursion, destructuring, first class functions) plus JSON sounds about right.