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      Nix, NixOS, Home Manager, and WSL2
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      <p>Although I've been using Linux for work computers for a lot longer, a few years ago, I switched from macOS and an Apple MacBook Pro to using Linux full-time on my personal computers.</p>

      <p>My current daily driver laptop is a Tuxedo InfinityBook that I've installed NixOS on.</p>

      <p>NixOS, as the name suggests, is a Linux operating system based on the Nix package manager. It has access to the 80,000+ packages in the <code>nixpkgs</code> repository and can still install and manage them, but also does a lot more including managing hardware.</p>

      <p>For user-level configuration, I use Home Manager. I can configure my home directory including user-specific packages and manage my dotfiles, creating files like <code>.gitconfig</code> and linking them to the required destination.</p>

      <p>Home Manager can be a NixOS module or a standalone tool - it can be added to NixOS or installed on any Linux distribution, even in WSL2, so I have the same packages that I need installed on every machine as well as having my dotfiles in the correct place and ready to be used.</p>

              
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      <p>Although I've been using Linux for work computers for a lot longer, a few years ago, I switched from macOS and an Apple MacBook Pro to using Linux full-time on my personal computers.</p>

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      <p>NixOS, as the name suggests, is a Linux operating system based on the Nix package manager. It has access to the 80,000+ packages in the <code>nixpkgs</code> repository and can still install and manage them, but also does a lot more including managing hardware.</p>

      <p>For user-level configuration, I use Home Manager. I can configure my home directory including user-specific packages and manage my dotfiles, creating files like <code>.gitconfig</code> and linking them to the required destination.</p>

      <p>Home Manager can be a NixOS module or a standalone tool - it can be added to NixOS or installed on any Linux distribution, even in WSL2, so I have the same packages that I need installed on every machine as well as having my dotfiles in the correct place and ready to be used.</p>

              
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