About NixOS, there's something really basic that I cannot seem to grasp. I had already installed many linux distro's with time, after the years I was really found on KDE and ZFS.

I've stumbled upon this tutorial with great interests and yet I can't start to see what is the expected install workflow. Are you expected to write your nix config file booting on the live medium, how could you easily transfer this config file to your install medium.

As much as I understand that targeting the right ZFS dataset and so should not be included in box and I was still happy to find some mention of it in the official doc. I don't understand this mix of an all seeing doc, spanning across many technologies and configurations set and yet what I could call the context is rather absent.