I really need to investigate NixOS further. I have Fedora Kinoite (Fedora Silverblue, but KDE) in a VM at the moment. Atomic, while technically immutable, seems easier for a noob to immutable distros.
But, having a look at a pretty comprehensive NixOS wiki, I may give that a go.
I only switched over today, I had been using Silverblue for a month or so before today. I had been wanting to try NixOS but had never taken the time because it looked so much more complicated than Arch. But yesterday I decided to install it in a vm and then I realized it wasnât at all that complicated so today I reinstalled my desktop system with NixOS. Iâm really enjoying it, since it kind of gave me the feeling Arch first gave me when trying to figure it out. Iâm sure Iâll still learn some things I donât currently know yet but that knowledge will come with some more experience with NixOS.
If you enjoy Arch you will probably also enjoy NixOS, so play around with it in a vm and see how you get on with it. Hereâs the link I used for most of setting it up, the rest I Google when I needed to look for something specific.
Just a few changes. Firstly, change to my newly made EndeavourOS wallpaper. Also added global menu, changed icons to Tela, changed application menu icon to monochrome, and a few other minor tweaksâŚ
One word of caution: if you update your system as much as the average EOS/Arch user does, youâll be eating up a lot of disk space, especially if you declare a bunch of system-related python modules. My NixOS Budgie VM takes up about twice the space of my other Linux VMs, and thatâs with strict purging of generations.
If/when their Wiki approaches Archâs in details/accuracy, it will be a much better experience.
I only have my desktop install setup and I donât install anything I donât need, same as how I had it with my Arch install. From my understanding of the documentation you can run these.
nix-collect-garbage: to remove old, unreferenced packages.
nix-collect-garbage -d: to remove garbage collector roots and old configurations, meaning you canât boot from them anymore.
@ajgringo619 I would hope that information is correct and works, I got that information from the official manual and I hope the same for this.
Looks like some Suru++ theme.
I use these commands to cleanup after a NixOS upgrade:
nix-env --delete-generations 30d
sudo nix-collect-garbage --delete-older-than 30d
While it makes a difference, the disk usage is still higher than any of my other systems.
Check out the second link I shared, that seems to clean up space too.
https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Storage_optimization
Yeah it is. I just donât remember where I downloaded it from lol.
The name of the icon set is
Material-Black-Plum-Suru
From Pling ?
Possible. I havenât downloaded an icon pack in over a year and I donât even remember what or where that was
A new to me Openbox theme. Dracula Without Border.
slowly replacing the menu icons with the Material-Black-Plum-Suru icons. Will see what i can do about the plank menu maybe modify the .desktop file for the icon.
Unseasonably cool today so I did my indoor work today. Got done a bit sooner than expected so went back to work changing all those icons lol. Got everything to this point with the menu. Was able to edit the .desktop files for those few on plank that didnât change.
hate unixporn 
stil figuring out what i want to do with labwc stil testing xfce4-panel a bit, down is sfwbar and xfce4-panel for docklike stil dont know which direction xfce4-panel drops sometimes
Editing because KDEâs appfinder bugged out in original pic
My old MacMini will always be EOS. But my laptop has gotten a distro-hop workout the past couple weeks! 
I think Iâm sticking with Solus KDE Plasma 6 for a while. Give it a thorough workout. Itâs been years since I used Solus to any real extent. Really liking where Solus has come over the years, especially since their re-birth a year or so ago.
Iâve gone rogue, and entered the void, complete with an oddball theming of XFCE that I think you could call âdivisiveâ if you were feeling tactfulâŚ
I do like its ruthless efficiency but the struggle it required of someone less knowledgeable like me really emphasised how good the Endeavour tools and documentation are as an addition to arch.
