[colinramsay]

I'm less interested in immutable systems and more in pre-configured systems. NixOS with Home Manager is the one that stands out here, but the configuration is just awful. I want to be able to have my full config in source control and know that is the state of my current system, with anything else being wiped on reboot. Anything that's changed before reboot should be highlighted.

In my (limited) experience with something like Silverblue, the base system can be configured but when you start adding applications (like say, Firefox), it is lacking when it comes to configuring that because you're using Flatpak and I don't know of a way to tell it to both install all Flatpaks I want along with all of the configuration.

I guess there's some way of installing Flatpaks en masse and then dotfiles can take care of the rest?

https://universal-blue.org/tinker/mindset/#resist-the-urge-t...

[1una]

> anything else being wiped on reboot

Have you tried Impermanence?

https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Impermanence

[Modified3019]

Have you tried the nix package manager on silverblue? https://julianhofer.eu/blog/01-silverblue-nix/

This helps keep the (I agree, awful) configuration portion of nix minimal.