The Complete Computer

Nix is a Tool for building Linux systems in a declarative idempotent method and is a good fit for the CCE , I think when moving past Fedora Linux .

emacs-lisp source: :tangle ~/nix/lisp/nixos.el
(provide 'cce/nixos)
(use-package nix-mode)
(use-package nixpkgs-fmt)
(use-package nix-buffer)
(use-package nix-update)
(use-package company-nixos-options
  :hook
  (nix-mode . (lambda ()
                (make-local-variable 'company-backends)
                (add-to-list 'company-backends 'company-nixos-options))))
(use-package nix-sandbox)

(defun cce-find-nix-output-at-point ()
  (interactive)
  (->>
   (nix-store-path-at-point)
   (make-instance 'nix-store-path :path )
   (nix-store-fill-data )
   (nix-store-path-outputs )
   (completing-read "Select an output" )
   (find-file)))

nix source: :tangle ~/nix/nixos/nixpkgs.nix
{ pkgs, config, ... }:

{
  # less nix crap
  nix.gc = {
    automatic = true;
    dates = "03:30";
    options = "--delete-older-than 30d";
    persistent = true;
  };

  nix.distributedBuilds = true;
  nix.buildMachines = builtins.filter (e: e.hostName != config.networking.hostName) [
    # { hostName = "virtuous-cassette";
    #   maxJobs = 6;
    #   sshUser = "builder";
    #   systems = [
    #     "x86_64-linux"
    #     "aarch64-linux"
    #   ];
    # }
    # { hostName = "window-smoke";
    #   maxJobs = 6;
    #   sshUser = "builder";
    #   systems = [
    #     "x86_64-linux"
    #     "i686-linux"
    #     "aarch64-linux"
    #   ];
    # }
    { hostName = "last-bank";
      maxJobs = 32;
      sshUser = "builder";
      systems = [
        "x86_64-linux"
        "i686-linux"
        "aarch64-linux"
      ];
    }
  ] ;
  nix.settings.trusted-users = ["rrix" "root" "@wheel"];
  nix.settings.extra-experimental-features = [ "flakes" "nix-command" ];

  # hahaha! yes
  # nixpkgs.config = { allowUnfree = true; };

  environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
    nix-tree
    nix-du
    nurl
  ];

 imports = [ ./ccache.nix ];
}

nix source: :tangle ~/nix/nixos/ccache.nix
{ config, pkgs, ... }:

{
  programs.ccache.enable = true;
  nix.settings.extra-sandbox-paths = [ config.programs.ccache.cacheDir ];
  systemd.tmpfiles.rules = [
    "d ${config.programs.ccache.cacheDir} 1770 root nixbld -"
  ];
  nixpkgs.overlays = [
    (self: super: {
      ccacheWrapper = super.ccacheWrapper.override {
        extraConfig = ''
        export CCACHE_COMPRESS=1
        export CCACHE_DIR="${config.programs.ccache.cacheDir}"
        export CCACHE_UMASK=007
        if [ ! -d "$CCACHE_DIR" ]; then
          echo "====="
          echo "Directory '$CCACHE_DIR' does not exist"
          echo "Please create it with:"
          echo "  sudo mkdir -m0770 '$CCACHE_DIR'"
          echo "  sudo chown root:nixbld '$CCACHE_DIR'"
          echo "====="
          exit 1
        fi
        if [ ! -w "$CCACHE_DIR" ]; then
          echo "====="
          echo "Directory '$CCACHE_DIR' is not accessible for user $(whoami)"
          echo "Please verify its access permissions"
          echo "====="
          exit 1
        fi
      '';
      };
    })
  ];
}

yaml source: 
- name: /nix exists
  file:
    path: /nix
    state: directory
    owner: "{{local_account}}"
    group: "{{local_account}}"
  tags:
  - nixos

- name: nix installed
  shell:
    executable: /bin/bash
    cmd: "bash <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --no-daemon"
    creates: /nix/store/
  become: yes
  become_user: "{{local_account}}"
  tags:
  - nixos

The Ansible Manages my Laptop until I deploy NixOS and adapt CCE for it.

shell source: :tangle ~/nix/files/bash_profile.d/90-nix.sh
if [ -e ~/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/nix.sh ]; then . ~/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/nix.sh; fi