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i cannot confirm nor deny these allegations, but i can provide you with my dotfile repo
52 0 ReplyIf you used NixOS, you could move your whole OS there!
13 0 ReplySeriously thinking about nuking my years old Gentoo installation to try Nixos at this point.
6 0 ReplyCould always just get another drive instead of tearing it down, storage is pretty cheap these days.
7 0 ReplyTrue. I'll migrate my
/home
back to my root drive and use the spare drive to experiment with.2 0 ReplyI'll migrate my
/home
back to my root drive and use the spare drive to experiment with.Or just leave it where it is and mount it there too ¯\(ツ)/¯
1 0 ReplyWell my home is on my spare drive currently lol. I guess I could just create another btrfs subvol alongside @home and use that as root.
1 0 ReplyBut where's the fun in that? Then you don't get new hardware.
2 0 ReplyI'd normally agree with you lol, but I got laid off recently so I have to make due with what I have for now.
The obvious answer that escaped me for whatever reason was just to create a VirtualBox VM. I already have it installed so why not.
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3 0 ReplyThe whole OS is configured by a single file (or subfiles you include from the main file) - every package and setting can be there. Meaning you just move the file to a new OS, run a single command, and you have the exactly same OS.
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