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The original was posted on /r/nixos by /u/ScarredDemonIV on 2024-09-26 19:51:21+00:00.

I absolutely love NixOS. I started my linux journey a few months ago, and as someone that has been a developer for many years, I wasn’t afraid to dive head first into Arch.

It was amazing. It just worked, until it didn’t. A few reinstalls later, with a nice addition to my dotfiles in each iteration, I discovered NixOS.

What a wonder! Never completely break your system and start from scratch again! Everything contained in one place and I know exactly where to look to modify something on my system. It really is amazing.

But f*cking neovim is the bane of my existence with nix at the moment … I jumped to so many different ways of implementing my own custom neovim setup, and each time I run into a massive hurdle that I just can’t seem to overcome …

I’m still new to neovim and nix, and I wouldn’t call myself a good programmer… , so maybe it’s a knowledge gap thing …

My last attempt was using nixvim… It worked really well until I tried to setup integrated test runners. (vim-test & neotest) I just can’t get it to work …

All I want is an easy way to configure and manage my neovim setup/plugins.

Please help me … I just want an easy to maintain/build config … Even if it’s not done “the nix way”