Quickly open terminal, sudo, cd /etc/nixos

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Alternative would be making the directory owned and writable by your user.

Or even moving it out of /etc/nixos altogether:

Where do people keep their `configuration.nix`

I cloned my config repo into Projects directory in my home directory and have been running nixos-rebuild switch -I nixpkgs=$HOME/Projects/nixpkgs -I nixos-config=$HOME/Projects/nixfiles/hosts/$(hostname)/configuration.nix.¹ I do not even have /etc/nixos on my computer, and the nixfiles directory is completely anonymous – I can move it anywhere and, since I actually use relative paths in the rebuild command, I will not even have to change anything. Some other tools like nixos-option might requi…