• LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 months ago

    with nixos, the states of all the config files are collected into the nix configuration which you can modify manually.

    Okay now that’s cool. Now I’m getting it.

    I guess that happens even if you install nix in another OS?

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      2 months ago

      Sort of, but e.g. in case of MacOS you’ll have some apps that can’t be installed as Nix packages and some things that can’t be configured in OS

      Also was not mentioned, since every dependency is unique you should have no trouble discerning versions that look the same, but in fact configured different or depending themselves on different versions of things, and introducing breakages that way. If you find that some specific configuration of dependency is causing you trouble, you can switch to a different one even if another package depends on this troublesome version.