Caro is thinking out loud

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Fleek is a user-friendly wrapper around nix

I’ve long been wanting to try out Nix, but I also value having a working computer and getting my job done, so have never actually taken the plunge. Then I ran across Fleek somewhere on Discord, and thought it looks really promising.

I’m currently running 2 laptops and a desktop computer, of which one runs PopOS and two run MacOS. Keeping things the same between all the machines is a constant struggle, so setting up something to manage the dotfiles and applications installed on each would be really useful.

I installed Nix using this installer as recommended by Fleek, followed the bootstrapping instructions which are nice and clear (although they weren’t kidding when they said fleek apply takes a while!).