NixOS Config

• What is this repository?
• Notes for Myself

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What is this repository?

While I still run Arch btw, I've been experimenting with NixOS and quite like it! My configuration is not ready for daily use yet, but I'm learning inside a VM. This repository is where I'm working on my NixOS dotfiles, and once ready, I will daily drive Nix btw instead.

Notes for Myself

To get this running on a NixOS system, I will start by cloning the repo:

git clone https://gitlab.com/librephoenix/nixos-config.git /path/to/my/config/folder

To get the hardware configuration on a new system, I can other copy from /etc/nixos/hardware-configuration.nix or run:

sudo nixos-generate-config --dir /dotfiles/path/system

Then, I can switch into the system configuration by running:

cd /dotfiles/path
sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake .#snowfire

Home manager can be installed with:

nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/master.tar.gz home-manager
nix-channel --update
nix-shell '<home-manager>' -A install

Then, my home-manager configuration can be installed with:

home-manager switch --flake #.emmet

This loads in my convenience script phoenix, which replaces frequently used nix and nixos commands with more user friendly ones, namely:

• phoenix sync to build and switch system and home configuration

  • phoenix sync system to build and switch only system configuration
  • phoenix sync user to build and switch only home configuration
• phoenix update to update flake inputs

• phoenix gc to garbage collect

  • If no argument is given, it cleans anything older than 30 days
  • If a time argument is supplied (i.e. 10d), it cleans stuff older than that (10 days in this example)
  • If the argument full is given, it deletes all previous generations