Nix Home Manager Option Search

Post by soraminazuki » Mon, Jan 22, 2024, 4:10 PM UTC

Bnichs wrote: post #28

soraminazuki wrote: post #27

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A good example of what exactly? Because regarding (a), this is just a quick reference for options. Nothing more, nothing less. As for (b), you're literally looking at detailed documentation. It's almost as if you made up your mind before opening the link.

If nix/home-manager documentation wasnt awful this site wouldn't be needed. And the level of detail should be way better than a one line sentence with no examples.

    man home-configuration.nix

Post by earthling8118 » Mon, Jan 22, 2024, 4:55 PM UTC

Bnichs wrote: post #26

gipp wrote: post #25

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That's.... so strangely diametrically opposite to my experience with Nix. The language itself leaves some things to be desired, and of course no argument on the documentation, but as a build and packaging system I have never in my life experienced fewer headaches. Everything Just Works, every time. Granted, this is on a NixOS system -- I imagine trying to jam a standalone Home Manager install on top of a non-Nixos sy…

I think that's part of the problem. It seems like the only way to have a good nix experience is to go all in with NixOS. The problem is that is a huge sell for someone who already has an OS they like and the fact that testing out nix standalone is such a pain means you end up with very little confidence in the prospect of migrating everything over. Plus, at least when I considered NixOS a few years ago, the setup ins…