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How does KDE play with Nix? I recall KDE shits all over the place with all the different cfg files it has. I had trouble trying to store them in my git repo. Would be awesome to use Nix to bring some sanity to KDE config


I have two experiences with trying KDE, one time with Arch and one time with NixOS. Both times I ended up (trying to) get rid of it again. The Arch experience left me with bunch of trash files and software still installed, my dbus setup is still not the same since then. But with NixOS I simply rolled back to the previous build and everything was fine.

The environment itself worked fine on both OSes, but if you're not sure if you'll like it, trying it on NixOS is way safer than anything else.


Mixed. Some things - like the theme switcher - break constantly because KDE has no awareness of NixOS and its configuration management approach, and indeed its configuration setup seems to change all the time.

The base setup works fine though, I've only had some core functionality break once, and that was after an upgrade to a new NixOS version - the progress display integration thingem for the file manager was broken.


Plasma is a popular choice of desktop on NixOS, but NixOS doesn't have any special facilities for managing KDE dotfiles.




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