What does HackerNews think of nixos-hardware?

A collection of NixOS modules covering hardware quirks.

Language: Nix

Unix legend Ken Thompson announces he's switching From macOS To Raspbian Linux | Mar 2023
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Whilst not strictly for power settings, NixOS has a repository where users can contribute general optimized settings for their hardware.

https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware
NixOS on Framework Laptop | Oct 2021
It's not what you're asking but I wonder if NixOS's hardware repo could expand to support Framework with some good defaults

That being said, I think there could be a good use case for "meta" NixOS distributions. I'm working on such a thing for a NixOS based RetroArch type thing. But could see a PopOS like configuration, focused on on an “out the box experience”

https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware

Nix-GUI: Make NixOS usable for non-technical users through settings / GUI | Oct 2021
I think NixOS would benefit from easily accessible collection of opinionated modules/profiles/configurations with minimal set of options. Something like gnome-desktop / sway-desktop / etc. Gnome actually does pretty good job here.

The point is: currently my NixOS and Home Manager configurations have over 2k LOC total. When you search for configurations on GitHub/Google you are likely to find complex ones. For example, quick search for "nixos gnome" (Google) gives me link to NixOS Wiki (which describes only Gnome part) and blog post (https://gvolpe.com/blog/gnome3-on-nixos/) which is useful but links to really huge configuration (https://github.com/gvolpe/nix-config) that is overwhelming to any beginner.

Great example of such approach is nixos-hardware (https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware) which provides one-line configuration covering hardware quirks.