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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • When you do finally get into an installation (dual boot or live usb) just remember that this a whole new OS. And things that you thought about how “computers” worked was actually how “windows” worked. I just want to make sure you set expectations, because you could easily frustrate yourself when you start expecting things to behave a certain way.

    Hopefully, you learn a lot from this experience. I’m excited for you!



  • Start ny NOT jumping into nixos. Start using home manager on whatever distro you currently use. Then slowly move whatever programs or dots you currently have over to it, uninstall the aur/apt packages as you define them in nix. At first you’ll have a clear goal: emulate your user environment. Once you’ve got your user environment defined, the jump to nixos would be easy (if you even want to) because you can use your home-manager config as the starting point. And depending on how you use your computer, home-manager may end up being most of what you care about.









  • If you use functions that return result (like your main, but with a different error) you could remove some of the if let blocks with let num = part2.to_string().parse::()?;. That might obfuscate some of the conditionals so the statements are one after another.

    Cool project, let us know about the next iteration.