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Pretty much what @jordanbeiber described.

I recently had to change my work's notebook. Since my NixOS configuration was commited in my dotfiles, I simply restored my NixOS configuration and $HOME and everything was working like the old notebook.

Also, bugfix for strange behaviors are written in my NixOS files, so it is like NixOS is my own personal distro.



One of my pain points with Linux is that every newly installed software thinks its okay to add new fonts that "provide" for traditional ones like Arial. I hope I will find a way to change that in nix but I'm wondering if I go change that in /etc/ and repeat for all machines or I can somehow do it in nix conf




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