Hey, you. You're finally awake. You were trying to configure your OS declaratively, right? Walked right into that NixOS ambush, same as us, and those dotfiles over there.
Shell: | zsh + zgen |
DM: | lightdm + lightdm-mini-greeter |
WM: | bspwm + polybar |
Editor: | Doom Emacs (and occasionally vim) |
Terminal: | st |
Launcher: | rofi |
Browser: | firefox |
GTK Theme: | Ant Dracula |
- Yoink NixOS 20.09 (must be newer than Sept 12, 2020 for
nixos-install --flake
). - Boot into the installer.
- Do your partitions and mount your root to
/mnt
git clone https://github.com/emiller88/dotfiles /etc/nixos
- Install NixOS:
nixos-install --root /mnt --flake #XYZ
, whereXYZ
is your hostname. Use#generic
for a simple, universal config. - OPTIONAL: Create a sub-directory in
hosts/
for your device. See host/kuro as an example. - Reboot!
And I say, bin/hey
. What's going on?
Command | Description |
---|---|
hey rebuild |
Rebuild this flake (shortcut: hey re ) |
hey upgrade |
Update flake lockfile and switch to it (shortcut: hey up ) |
hey rollback |
Roll back to previous system generation |
hey gc |
Runs nix-collect-garbage -d . Use sudo to clean system profile |
hey push REMOTE |
Deploy these dotfiles to REMOTE (over ssh) |
hey check |
Run tests and checks for this flake |
hey show |
Show flake outputs of this repo |
-
How do I change the default username?
- Set
USER
the first time you runnixos-install
:USER=myusername nixos-install --root /mnt --flake #XYZ
- Or change
"hlissner"
in modules/options.nix.
- Set
-
How do I "set up my partitions"?
My main host has a README you can use as a reference. I set up an EFI+GPT system and partitions with
parted
andzfs
. -
How 2 flakes?
It wouldn't be the NixOS experience if I gave you all the answers in one, convenient place.
Add dotfiles to your flake.nix
:
{
inputs.dotfiles.url = "https://flakehub.com/f/Emiller88/dotfiles/*.tar.gz";
outputs = { self, dotfiles }: {
# Use in your outputs
};
}