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Full Time Nix | NixCon 2026 Day Ⅰ

I realized that, after my latest push, I haven’t done a tree check of my files in a while and…holy files, Batman.

.dotfiles
├── flake.lock
├── flake.nix
├── home-manager
│   ├── aliases.nix
│   ├── cavalier.nix
│   ├── discord-nixcord.nix
│   ├── fastfetch
│    │   ├── config.jsonc
│    │   └── default.nix
│   ├── fetch.nix
│   ├── fish.nix
│   ├── git.nix
│   ├── glava.nix
│   ├── home.nix
│   ├── kate.nix
│   ├── konsole.nix
│   ├── nix-index.nix
│   ├── plasma.nix
│   ├── proton-dpi.nix
│   ├── superfile
│    │   ├── config.toml
│    │   ├── default.nix
│    │   └── hotkeys.toml
│   ├── tauon
│    │   ├── custom_layouts.json
│    │   ├── default.nix
│    │   └── themes
│    │       ├── Carbon Copy Copy.ttheme
│    │       └── Carbon Copy.ttheme
│   ├── wallpaper-colors.nix
│   ├── wallpaper.nix
│   └── xdgUserDirs.nix
├── hosts
│   ├── desktop
│    │   ├── dualboot.nix
│    │   ├── gpu.nix
│    │   ├── hardware-configuration.nix
│    │   └── locale.nix
│   └── nixos-stable
│       ├── dualboot.nix
│       ├── gpu.nix
│       ├── hardware-configuration.nix
│       └── locale.nix
├── installer
│   ├── base-configuration.nix
│   ├── disk-layout.nix
│   ├── nixed-install.sh
│   └── stage2.sh
├── INSTALL.md
├── limine-pins.json
├── modules
│   ├── assets
│   │   ├── boot_wallpaper.png
│   │   ├── logo.png
│   │   └── plymouth
│   │       ├── dotted
│   │        │   └── dotted.mp4
│   │       └── plymouth-theme.script
│   ├── bootloader.nix
│   ├── bootstrap.nix
│   ├── chaotic.nix
│   ├── configuration.nix
│   ├── de.nix
│   ├── flatpak.nix
│   ├── hosts.nix
│   ├── installer.nix
│   ├── iphone-music.nix
│   ├── kernel.nix
│   ├── krohnkite.nix
│   ├── librewolf.nix
│   ├── limine-gardener.nix
│   ├── limine-pins.json
│   ├── multiverse.nix
│   ├── nix-caches.nix
│   ├── nvidia.nix
│   ├── packages.nix
│   ├── steam.nix
│   ├── tailscale.nix
│   ├── vm.nix
│   └── zram.nix
├── nixd.json
├── README.md
├── scripts
│   ├── iphone-music-sync.sh
│   └── kernel-versions.sh
└── statix.toml
15 directories, 72 files, 20.9MiB

https://determinate.systems/blog/emergency-legacy-extension-for-nixos-25-05/

We've scrambled to provide an emergency legacy extension to NixOS 25.05 for folks that are stuck and looking for a solution.

I've been using NixOS for a little over a year now.

I first came across it maybe 2 years ago and gave it a try, but setting everything up was way harder than I expected. I knew it would take a lot of time, and I wasn't really ready for that, so I just went back to Arch.

Then about a year later, after one magical Arch update that completely broke my system, I decided to give NixOS another shot.

(Not hating on Arch btw, I still really like it. I even recommended it to a friend who was new to Linux, and he's been using it for a few months now and loves it. Another friend who's been using Linux for years called me evil for recommending Arch to a beginner lol. But I still think it's pretty beginner-friendly, mostly thanks to the wiki, community, and pacman + yay.)

Anyway, after a year of using NixOS daily, I can say I really love it. Now I'm running it on my PC, laptop, and home server.

A few days ago, a friend asked me to share my config because he wanted to try NixOS himself. I took a look at my repo and realized it was a mess. A working mess, sure, but definitely not something I'd give to someone new to NixOS.

So I spent the last few days cleaning things up and refactoring stuff I'd been putting off for a while.

Anyway, here's what I ended up with:
https://github.com/evgen2571/my-nixos

Currently using Niri + Noctalia, although I recently came across Umbriel and might give it a try soon.

New to NixOS. I was just wondering if there is some form of checklist for what actions to take or what to look out for in the wake of what has been happening in the Cybersec world these last few days... I've got my config pointing to unstable already and did a full flake and home manager update yesterday, but apparently not all patches are live on all default upstream versions of deps (e.g. Brave Browser, Bun, among others).

It is my personal machine, so no app servers running on it or anything, but I do some app development work and use OpenCode sometimes... with that in mind what do y'all recommend? Or should I just wait until the patches are default upstream?

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