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Yesterday, I showed some of the Nix programming language<\/a> and how to use it to perform tasks such as installing and configuring packages.<\/p>\n\n

I like this declarative approach as you know everything installed on your system and its configuration.<\/p>\n\n

There are no random or leftover packages or configuration files<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

The Nix package manager can be installed on Linux or macOS, but you can also use Nix to configure your whole operating system in a declarative way thanks to NixOS.<\/p>\n\n

As well as installing and configuring packages, you can define your firmware version, boot loader, disk partitioning, user accounts and more.<\/p>\n\n

I used to do this type of automation with Ansible but switched to NixOS soon after trying Nix on another Linux distribution.<\/p>\n\n

If I need to work on a different laptop, like when mine recently died, I can apply the same configuration and get all the same programs and configurations as before.<\/p>\n\n

If you want to see my current NixOS setup, you can see it on my GitHub<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n ", "format": "full_html", "processed": "\n

Yesterday, I showed some of the Nix programming language<\/a> and how to use it to perform tasks such as installing and configuring packages.<\/p>\n\n

I like this declarative approach as you know everything installed on your system and its configuration.<\/p>\n\n

There are no random or leftover packages or configuration files<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

The Nix package manager can be installed on Linux or macOS, but you can also use Nix to configure your whole operating system in a declarative way thanks to NixOS.<\/p>\n\n

As well as installing and configuring packages, you can define your firmware version, boot loader, disk partitioning, user accounts and more.<\/p>\n\n

I used to do this type of automation with Ansible but switched to NixOS soon after trying Nix on another Linux distribution.<\/p>\n\n

If I need to work on a different laptop, like when mine recently died, I can apply the same configuration and get all the same programs and configurations as before.<\/p>\n\n

If you want to see my current NixOS setup, you can see it on my GitHub<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n ", "summary": null } ], "feeds_item": [ { "imported": "1970-01-01T00:33:45+00:00", "guid": null, "hash": "1c553d5a90092cb35e635bb87120d74a", "target_type": "feeds_feed", "target_uuid": "90c85284-7ca8-4074-9178-97ff8384fe76" } ] }