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		rprospero on May 30, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A decade of dotfiles The biggest advantage that I can give is that everything is together in a unified language. To give a trivial, but extreme example, my workstation's colour scheme is controlled via my Nix setup. This includes terminal colours, GTK theme, Emacs syntax highlighting, Matplotlib colours, CSS overrides, window manager, and more. Yet I can change a single line in my Nix file and update all of these without worrying about the myriad configuration languages that are involved. A single change on a different line will update the default font for all these applications as well.

jeppesen-io on May 30, 2022 [–]

yep! also what I find nice is you can just ref a package in a config and it just gets installed

e.g. create a g zsh alias for git using the alias section of zsh module in home manager

> g = "${pkgs.git}/bin/git";

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