<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>nix on davegallant.ca</title><link>/tags/nix/</link><description>Recent content in nix on davegallant.ca</description><generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator><language>en</language><copyright>Dave Gallant</copyright><lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2021 00:42:33 -0400</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="/tags/nix/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Why I threw out my dotfiles</title><link>/blog/why-i-threw-out-my-dotfiles/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2021 00:42:33 -0400</pubDate><guid>/blog/why-i-threw-out-my-dotfiles/</guid><description>&lt;p>Over the years I have collected a number of dotfiles that I have shared across both Linux and macOS machines (&lt;code>~/.zshrc&lt;/code>, &lt;code>~/.config/git/config&lt;/code>, &lt;code>~/.config/tmux/tmux.conf&lt;/code>, etc). I have tried several different ways to manage them, including &lt;a
href="https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles"
class="link--external" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"
>bare git repos&lt;/a> and utilities such as &lt;a
href="https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/"
class="link--external" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"
>GNU Stow&lt;/a>. These solutions work well enough, but I have since found what I would consider a much better solution for organizing user configuration: &lt;a
href="https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager"
class="link--external" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"
>home-manager&lt;/a>.&lt;/p></description></item></channel></rss>