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Do you use the nixos hardware module, or the surface kernel as an overlay

@codemonkeymike I use the surface kernel, which worked out pretty well!

The one thing I learned rather quickly, however, was that building the kernel and running nixos-rebuild switch on the Surface itself took an ungodly amount of time… 😫

It was in that moment that I learned about NixOS’ amazing feature of building new configurations on a remote PC and deploying over WiFi.

I was able to build the kernel on my beefy desktop and deploy to the Surface in a third of the time! 🤘🏼

:arch: dedSyn4ps3 :nixos:

@mahmoudajawad @codemonkeymike My apologies, I didn’t see your comment!

I’ve got a Surface Pro 6 that I tested out the surface kernel on with . Like I had mentioned in an earlier comment, I highly recommend building your new NixOS configuration that includes the surface kernel on a more powerful desktop and allowing the awesome remote deployment feature of to deploy it to the Surface…