You don't have to use Nix to manage your dotfiles

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A pattern I've seen happen many times is where people (often new to Nix) overuse Nix in a manner that makes their lives harder, in order to make their systems ostensibly more reproducible and often get the bad side of the tradeoffs inherent in using it. The type of way that this becomes frustrating is, for instance, by inserting Nix evaluations and builds in the iteration loop of changing…

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