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nix-os [[Sunday 24 January 2021] [20:08]] – created forgenix-os [[Monday 08 February 2021] [08:50]] (current) forge
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 This is both good and bad  This is both good and bad 
  
-The good is that everything is configured and installed by editing and a single installation file positioned at /etc/nixos/configuration.nix and the Nix-OS install then interprets this and installs/updates/recreates itself using a single command nixos-rebuild switch ( add --upgrade to upgrade)+  * The //good// is that //everything// is configured and installed by editing and a single installation file positioned at [[configuration.nix|/etc/nixos/configuration.nix]]   
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 +  * The //bad// is that //everything// is configured and installed by editing and a single installation file positioned at [[configuration.nix|/etc/nixos/configuration.nix]]   
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 +The Nix-OS install then interprets this and installs/updates/recreates itself using a single command nixos-rebuild switch ( add --upgrade to upgrade) 
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 +The biggest benefit to this is you can use this file across multiple different PCs & Laptops if it works on one, with minor tweaks it will reproduce the same install on others 
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 +The biggest downside to this is that the 'normal' way of configuring personalising your Linux installation does not always work, and you must learn to manipulate the [[configuration.nix]] file for the configuration you want to remain between updates and upgrades, and this means relearning a lot of basics. 
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 +I an still unsure of I like this, however it seems to work well and so far after a couple of months I am still using it  
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 +I may eventually move back to using Debian or Arch Linux as they are (imo) much simpler to configure and use 
  
  
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