Same story. Ssd of my machine for work crashed and after the replacement I was ready for work with everything customized and configured 30 minutes later.

A new node for my cluster arrives? 30 minutes later the new one is setup and integrated in my k8s home setup. Reusing complete profiles combined with files for hardware specifics.

I can even upgrades major versions fearlessly and had 0 problems the last years.

I guess there are multiple working and proven ways. The above is the one which worked for me as a full time Principle in a 10000+ “shop” over years now. Whatever will work for you will be your preffered way.

Running my nix config incl. dot files on multiple OS from wsl and Mac for shell env and paths specific coding envs via devenv to nixos on my workstation and server.

I started with home manager on wsl till I got comfortable and switched to nix full time in the run. Was a chore at first. Now, i do not want any other environment for coding. It just works and can replicate and sync all working environments with ease!

And off by one errors

Im Linux all the way, but saying the difference from Windows to prod is bigger does not take wsl into account. It is way more near linux production environments than Mac.

You can start with getfleek.dev and transition to nix after you settled and fleek isnt enough anymore.

Using it on Nixos, Debian (wsl) and was using it (in the transition to nixos) on arch. Works flawless!

There is two of us. Sidenote: my workspaces are all named after the topic they represent. E.g. dots, htmxpoc…

Or you go with Ranger, lf or other TUI options and navigate completly keyboard driven in terminal with the overview of a gui.

Happy Nixos user here. Never looked back and after this ride I am not able to switch, cannot see the reason for imperativs anymore 😁

And whatever you do, stop shouting! 😁

https://youtu.be/tDacjrSCeq4?si=BLnrZ3nLaf5UiMhy

lofl