It's no mistake that there's a large time gap since my last post about NixOS and using Disko to automatically partition disks. Understanding what NixOS is doing has been a challenge. Over the last month I've been making myself more familiar with NixOS by using a NixOS flake called ZaneyOS on my primary home system.

ZaneyOS provides a great configuration to jump into NixOS with the Hyprland window manager. After a few configuration file edits I booted up into NixOS and rebuilt into the ZaneyOS flake. Another reboot and my system was ready for me to log in and go.

I spend several days perusing the nix configuration files that make up ZaneyOS attempting to understand how they work. I wanted to know what was getting installed and how those packages were being configured. Mostly, I was lost. I realized it was time to learn more about this Nix language...