Nix dotfiles

⚠️ I’ll admit it, I have no idea what the hell I’m doing. I could be doing everything perfectly (doubtful), or I could be doing everything wrong, and it only works out of chance and luck. Or, most probably, I’m doing a mix of correct and incorrect things. With that out of the way:

Welcome to my virtual home. I wouldn’t advise you to blindly copy large parts from these dotfiles, because if you read the short description above, you’d know it’s not a good idea. If you haven’t read the description above, go and read it. This whole configuration is managed with NixOS’s flake feature (which is currently unstable).

Table of contents

• Information
  • Programs
  • Setup
  • Why NixOS?
• Images
  • Main
  • Emacs

Information

Programs

Setup

• Get the latest minimal NixOS ISO. I get it from here. You may want a slightly more stable ISO.
• Boot into the installer, setup, and mount the disks
  • Depending on which host you want to set up, you’ll have to follow different instructions, each in ./hosts/<host>/readme.org
• Get a nix shell with `git` and `nix flake` set up: nix-shell -p git nixFlakes
• Clone these dotfiles to /etc/nixos: git clone https://github.com/mcotocel/nixdots /mnt/etc/nixos
  • At this point, it would be smart to edit the hardware-configuration.nix file to suit your hardware, and additionally add or remove things you need or don’t need
• Install NixOS using the flake: nixos-install --root /mnt --flake /mnt/etc/nixos#host. If that doesn’t work, try it with --impure.
  • Host is the host you want to install. A list of hosts is in ./hosts
• Reboot and change the user password. Unless you want to use root the whole time, which is stupid
• Log in as the normal user and run nas nix pull to pull the config to your home folder

Why NixOS?

• Declarative package and configuration management
• Lots of packages
• Rollbacks of configurations (When you mess something up, like the kernel)
• Reliable system
• Reproducible environment

Images

Main

Pretty much my AwesomeWM config, with floating windows and layout switcher. Titlebars can be toggled, but they are off by default. The bottom bar can also be toggled.

Emacs

An Emacs config. Pictured are Neotree, Vertico, and Emacs.