Where can I help out?

[RWayne93]

I recently switched to this flake after coming from HyDE on Arch. I wanted to give NixOS a try after a long time on Arch.

I finally found a good use case for NixOS for my development team as all our development systems need to be configured a certain way with certain software etc so NixOS was the obvious choice to make us all on the same page.

I saw the announcement on maintenance mode and would really love for this flake to continue. Its my understanding most of the configurations are coming from the HyDE Arch configurations and this project takes all that and packages it up to work with NixOS?

[richen604]

Its my understanding most of the configurations are coming from the HyDE Arch configurations and this project takes all that and packages it up to work with NixOS

the repo gets pulled as a non flake, built, and all the configurations come directly from hyde. then theres a hyde update script here that checks if config locations have changed and packages have been removed/added

theres also 4 binaries that have to be maintained for the project also in the flake inputs.

i personally don't want to use hyde anymore and keeping it up to date is alot of work for one person. the flake is built to be easy to update however it lacks alot of performance due to extensive usage of home-manager and IFD

[RWayne93]

I honestly don't use that much of HyDE aside from the default bindings, adjusting a couple things (like using a different terminal as my default) and a couple of the default themes. But thanks for explaining it to me.

[AdrienLemaire]

@richen604 do you mind sharing about your experience with this project, and the reason for switching to a different setup (and what setup?)

Similarly to @RWayne93, I'm not using HyDE that much, and truly appreciated the scaffolding and conventions that helped me keep a configuration sane / less messy.

Curious about testing out your new setup if you don't mind sharing a bit about it and if it doesn't require too much expertise.

[richen604]

@richen604 do you mind sharing about your experience with this project, and the reason for switching to a different setup (and what setup?)

since the hyde repo updates frequently, it was challenging to keep up with the pace of features and converting them into support nix. also due to home-manager and IFD from hydenix it was quite slow to eval (8+ seconds on my machine).

for those reasons i moved to my personal dotfiles

Curious about testing out your new setup if you don't mind sharing a bit about it and if it doesn't require too much expertise.

you can take a look and see what makes sense to you