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NixOS

TODO

Windows

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) makes the development experience on this operating system something worth ditching macOS for! I get the best of both worlds now: a *nix environment (I mean, there was Cygwin, but that's an uncanny valley) and the ability to run PC games and Adobe Creative Cloud programs.

Install Windows Subsystem for Linux (Debian).
Install Nix ❆.

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install curl xz-utils

# Workarounds -- https://nathan.gs/2019/04/12/nix-on-windows/
sudo mkdir -p /etc/nix
echo "sandbox = false"        | sudo tee    /etc/nix/nix.conf
echo "use-sqlite-wal = false" | sudo tee -a /etc/nix/nix.conf

curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh
. ~/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/nix.sh

# Home Manager
nix-channel --add https://github.com/rycee/home-manager/archive/master.tar.gz home-manager
nix-channel --update

Install dotfiles.

mkdir --parents ~/Code
nix-shell -p git --run "git clone https://github.com/nutty7t/dotfiles ~/Code/dotfiles"
ln --symbolic --force ~/Code/dotfiles/dotfiles.nix ~/.config/nixpkgs/home.nix
nix-shell '<home-manager>' -A install
home-manager switch

Set fish as the default shell.

echo $(which fish) | sudo tee -a /etc/shells
chsh -s $(which fish)

Docker

My dotfiles can be built as a Docker container, which means that you can try them out in a sandboxed environment without messing up your own system. It also means that it's easy to deploy my development environment in the cloud.

# Download the image
docker pull nutty7t/dotfiles:latest

# OR build the image
git clone https://github.com/nutty7t/dotfiles && cd dotfiles
docker build --no-cache --tag nutty7t/dotfiles .

# AND start the container
docker run --hostname nuttydots -it nutty7t/dotfiles fish

Troubleshooting

The clipboard sharing in X410 does not work.

Make sure that the VSOCK (Hyper-V) Windows feature is enabled.