Dotfiles

Guix is what introduced with functional package managers. It’s based of Guile scheme, a LISP variant.

Guix SD is quite new, and is tricky to run on modern hardware. I also had issues running tools I use daily at work.

I ended up moving back to Arch with guix as a package manager, using arch packages or nix packages for things missing in guix.

Objectives

Here is a list of objectives for OS, applications and dotfiles:

automate OS and Apps installation

setup most tools as user programs

will run in 10 weeks, 10 months, 10 years and produce the same setup

can rollback if I crash the OS

can rollback applications

can be extended

manages my dotfiles too

has different setup for personal vs work

Guix is what introduced with functional package managers. It’s based of Guile scheme, a LISP variant.

Guix SD is quite new, and is tricky to run on modern hardware. I also had issues running tools I use daily at work.

I ended up moving back to Arch with guix as a package manager, using arch packages or nix packages for things missing in guix.

ONGOING setup start with applications setup using nix system configuration

How to install

run the command `nix-shell` to get all the necessary tools

The command `just` will list the available commands.