Earlier this year, I decided it was time for a change in my setup. Linux Mint with i3 had served me well, but Xorg was starting to feel dated, especially performance-wise. That’s when I started thinking about what I actually wanted from my system. I could go the Arch route and live on the bleeding edge, or try something different and more predictable. Then I remembered looking at NixOS a long time ago. The idea of describing an entire system in configuration and being able to rebuild it anytime had always stuck with me. The more I read about it, the more it felt like the direction I wanted to go. ...