Meant to be the all-stable system that will always
work on boot and always allow me to do my work with
no maintainance or upgrading. Focuses on a stable
text editor with supports for lsp, linters, and
everything along, and tooling for hacking.
And it has also been a great resource for me to learn
more about hardware configuration, bootloaders, kernel
configurations, torification, mining, graphic desing,
and the list truly goes on...
The system has been continually maturing alongside me
and my journey according to my needs, these are just
the certain states of it I'd like to capture.
This was at the time of me learning all the features
of the nix language and getting acustomed to the
functional programming paradigm.
Was mainly a single file configuration with no modularity.
My full plunge into Nix, while also focusing on having
a pretty looking system. Here everything got modularized
expanded, turned into flakes and improved upon.
As my system evolved through time, and expanded further
I decided to focus more on ergonomics and impact than looks.
As this system matured many of the expensive features got
stripped away, and supports for lots of languages and tooling
got implemented along the way, as well as custom configurations
for basically any application I was using, or even service and daemon.
It also served as to mine Monero XMR, and host a Tor node.
And within this time I've competed at the national competitive
programming competition and created my own colorscheme.
These are things that haven't really changed
throught time, except for plymouth which is
why it isnt here.
This has been my production system for a long time,
it has served well to learn a large number of things.
However I decided to abandon it due to NixOS avoiding many of
the common linux challenges I wished to face, as well as
the general complexities of system management.
Maybe NixOS is an Oasis that excludes all the stability
and management problems of the usual linux distros,
but that along with the differing in the FHS and toolchains
makes it not the best place for learning.
A part of my decision has also been influenced
by the leading developers of NixOS and their
behavior, opinions as well as decisions,
in regards to many things.