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title: >
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Nix, NixOS, Home Manager, and WSL2
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pubDate: 2023-04-09
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permalink: >-
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archive/2023/04/09/nix-nixos-home-manager-and-wsl2
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- linux
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- nix
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- nixos
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- wsl2
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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.
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My current daily driver laptop is a Tuxedo InfinityBook that I've installed NixOS on.
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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 `nixpkgs` repository and can still install and manage them, but also does a lot more including managing hardware.
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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 `.gitconfig` and linking them to the required destination.
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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.
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