My new project nix-desktop is out on GitHub now. It is an application and service manager for desktop, currently for Linux. As the name implies, it relies on the Nix ecosystem. It resides in somewhere between nix-env command and home-manager. What it is It is currently capable of the following things: Installing XDG menu entries. Installing user systemd services. It lets you write configuration in Nix. Installation and usage You can install the program by running the following command:




Last year, I started working in Tokyo for the first time as a programmer1. I soon left the company for several reasons and became an employee of another company based in Fukuoka, which is the fifth largest populated city in Japan. One reason2 for switching the company was that I was not allowed to use Emacs in the project. Taking into account my past work on Emacs packages, it was a nonsense that he sent me to the project where I was not allowed to use Emacs.



Akira Komamura