7.5 years of NixOS on the desktop, cleaned up with Flakes

How I changed my NixOS habits using Flakes to avoid excessive rebuilding

I first installed NixOS in 2015. I wasn’t exactly sure why. Some people with similar interests to mine were doing it, people who were into Haskell, though I myself was not yet into Haskell. I guess I wasn’t sure exactly why I started that either. Vague promises, to me yet unsubstantiated. But I gambled with a change because I had been struggling. I was …