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I'm hopeful that Nix can help with this. By putting system configuration into a config file, it should be easier to set up a system -- point it at the file and let it install everything.

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The most exciting part of this for me is having dependencies for different projects specified in a shell.nix file in the root of that project. then I just run nix-shell and get an environment with those dependencies isolated from the rest of my system.

Is it possible for you to share a blog or a video demonstrating that? Please?

This looks pretty close to the process I use for a new "blank" system:

https://www.adaltas.com/en/2022/02/08/nixos-installation/

Once you have setup one system and tuned a configuration.nix to your liking it's portable to each nixos system you setup.

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