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- value: 'Nix as an operating system'
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<p>Yesterday, <a href="/daily/2024/11/26/the-nix-language">I showed some of the Nix programming language</a> and how to use it to perform tasks such as installing and configuring packages.</p>
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<p>I like this declarative approach as you know everything installed on your system and its configuration.</p>
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<p><a href="/daily/2024/11/23/no-more-random-packages">There are no random or leftover packages or configuration files</a>.</p>
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<p>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>
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<p>As well as installing and configuring packages, you can define your firmware version, boot loader, disk partitioning, user accounts and more.</p>
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<p>I used to do this type of automation with Ansible but switched to NixOS soon after trying Nix on another Linux distribution.</p>
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<p>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>
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<p>If you want to see my current NixOS setup, you can <a href="https://github.com/opdavies/dotfiles">see it on my GitHub</a>.</p>
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<p>Yesterday, <a href="/daily/2024/11/26/the-nix-language">I showed some of the Nix programming language</a> and how to use it to perform tasks such as installing and configuring packages.</p>
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<p>I like this declarative approach as you know everything installed on your system and its configuration.</p>
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<p><a href="/daily/2024/11/23/no-more-random-packages">There are no random or leftover packages or configuration files</a>.</p>
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<p>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>
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<p>As well as installing and configuring packages, you can define your firmware version, boot loader, disk partitioning, user accounts and more.</p>
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<p>I used to do this type of automation with Ansible but switched to NixOS soon after trying Nix on another Linux distribution.</p>
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<p>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>
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<p>If you want to see my current NixOS setup, you can <a href="https://github.com/opdavies/dotfiles">see it on my GitHub</a>.</p>
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