Nix Dotfiles

My Personal Nix Config

Warning

Use at your own risk. It works for me, but it may not work for you. At least not without adjustments.

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Features

• Flake-based
• XFCE desktop environment
• BSPWM window manager
• Brave browser
• Kitty terminal
• Zsh shell
• etc.

Components

• flake.nix

  Config entrypoint: This flake contains a linux config. Modify username, hostname, and Nix config directory here.

• sys/ (directory)

  System: Configure various system components, like home-manager, unfree software, system-wide packages, etc.

• pkg/ (directory)

  Packages: Install and configure various software for the user.

• cfg/ (directory)

  Configs: Manage non-Nix configuration files.

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Installation

Edit flake.nix to change username and hostname, and change config location to the local clone of this repo and export that path using export NIXOS_CONFIG_DIR="<path/to/clone>". Then run the following lines:

# use autogenerated hardware config instead of cloned one
mv "$NIXOS_CONFIG_DIR/sys/hardware-configuration.nix" "$NIXOS_CONFIG_DIR/sys/hardware-configuration.nix.bak"
cp "/etc/nixos.bak/hardware-configuration.nix" "$NIXOS_CONFIG_DIR/sys/"

# rebuild system from config
sudo -H nixos-rebuild --experimental-features "nix-command flakes" switch --flake "$NIXOS_CONFIG_DIR"
nix run home-manager/release-24.11 -- switch --flake "$NIXOS_CONFIG_DIR"