https://davegallant.ca/tags/nix/Recent content in Nix on davegallant.caHugoenDave GallantFri, 27 Mar 2026 08:22:01 -0400https://davegallant.ca/blog/why-i-threw-out-my-dotfiles/Wed, 08 Sep 2021 00:42:33 -0400https://davegallant.ca/blog/why-i-threw-out-my-dotfiles/<p>Over the years I have collected a number of dotfiles that I have shared across both Linux and macOS machines (<code>~/.zshrc</code>, <code>~/.config/git/config</code>, <code>~/.config/tmux/tmux.conf</code>, etc). I have tried several different ways to manage them, including <a href="https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles" class="link--external" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" >bare git repos</a> and utilities such as <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/" class="link--external" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" >GNU Stow</a>. These solutions work well enough, but I have since found what I would consider a much better solution for organizing user configuration: <a href="https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager" class="link--external" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" >home-manager</a>.</p>