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Sergio Scabuzzo (EcoTechie)

I wanted to test some issues I was having with and core functions. So what do I do? Install and spend most of the weekend trying to understand/configure it so I can use vim there...

@Sergio
Sounds like my workflow. :)

Did you know you can do systemwide vim config including plugins from your configuration.nix? I haven't tried it yet, but I want to someday! You can even have multiple vim instances set up like that with different settings and even different binary names.

@benjaminhollon Just learning that. I setup home manager and am tweaking things as we speak. Using right now as a testing bed. If I get this setup well, I may pull a distro hop.

Going to take a break from actively learning and poke at settings. Then I may look into flakes. Seems like a very interesting OS.

Though I generally consider myself somewhat of a purist with Linux, and want things to be configured as intended. Probably why I don't like Snaps and friends...

Also, meh. This is fun

@Sergio

The nice thing about home manager is if you decide you don't like NixOS, you can bring your home-manager config with you to your distro of choice.

@benjaminhollon