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The original was posted on /r/nixos by /u/jevyjevjevs on 2024-03-06 13:25:12.

(I posted this on my blog, but wanted to put it here for the discussion)

My History with Linux

In 1999, I installed Fedora 5.2 on my parents' computer and started down the deep path of exploring technology in this fundamentally different alternative operating system.

I remember joining IRC:

Jevin: I remember typing in a password during the install, but what's the username? Friendly Linux Person: Oh, your username is root.

Then I got started building a business hosting websites on a server in my parents basement using my residential cable model. Yeah, that got shut down real fast.

My progression of distros has looked something like this:

Fedora -> Slackware ->

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The original was posted on /r/nixos by /u/conixtract on 2023-08-29 12:08:31.

I use home manager as a nixos modul. Thus I have to run sudo nixos-rebuild switch each time I make changes within home manager - which in general I don't mind. Fiddling around with aesthetics however I rebuild a lot to see if I like the changes in my dotfiles. This gets a little tedious after a while as the sys rebuild takes a bit of time.

Is there a way to make temporal changes that take effect immediately so that I can play around and only apply the things I like within the .nix file?