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NixOS Facter: a declarative hardware configuration for NixOS is inviting the community to try it out. (discourse.nixos.org)

submitted 1 year ago by captainkangaroo@discuss.tchncs.de to c/nix@programming.dev

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cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/22368053

NixOS Facter aims to be an alternative to projects such as NixOS Hardware and nixos-generate-config. It solves the problem of bootstrapping NixOS configurations by deferring decisions about hardware and other aspects of the target platform to NixOS modules.

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[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It sounds neat, but I haven't really had to screw with hardware configuration. I've had it on 10 different places, including decent sized servers and I've had to mess with one laptop video card which was working fine but stuck in acceleration mode all the time.