XenGi

Can’t say I’d prefer it yet. Still figuring out how nix works.

Currently using stow, but in the process of switching to home manager from nix. Syncing via git.

Yes, it’s still X11. I want to switch to Wayland.

But then your still using i3 + lots of custom scripts. I don’t find the time anymore to maintain all this custom config. I want to switch to Wayland but I don’t want to invest all that time with sway again.

I’m currently doing this with xfce replacing it’s window manager with i3. Sadly that doesn’t work on Wayland anymore because the concept of a window manager doesn’t exist anymore. Your DE is a compositor now.

Still waiting for a DE that’s looks and acts like i3/sway but takes care of everything under the hood like monitor config, shortcuts for brightness, volume etc. Essentially everything Gnome or KDE does.

Apple is just as bad in a different way. There is no perfect solution. People need to understand what they do, to do it well. That doesn’t mean that the average Joe needs to learn C. He can continue to write down the process on some sticky notes but it would help if he does look beyond the horizon e g. understand what the buttons he clicks all day actually do.

You could run a VM and plan to setup one service on it as an exercise. NixOS wiki is pretty ok in general, but it is a useful skill to read the code of the modules you use. Flakes are poorly documented and also controversial. So I wouldn’t hop on that yet.

Arch on everything with a screen. NixOS on everything without.