Nix Machines

Table of Contents

• Instructions
  • Installation
  • Uninstallation
• Hosts
  • Define a new host

Instructions

Currently, there is a bootstrap script for Mac OS** Mac OS

Installation

1. Clone this repository to a directory of your choice. I usually clone it in $xdg_config_home/nixpkgs.
2. Ensure there exist a flake for the current host and username (check out flake.nix for the complete list). If setting up a new host, check out Define a new host section.
3. cd to the repo directory and run:

   bin/yo-mac-installer install $HOST
       

4. You may need to reboot the system – specially if skhd is not working.

Uninstallation

To uninstall nix simply run:

bin/yo-mac-installer uninstall

Note this will not remove the nix configuration files.

Hosts

Host	OS	Notes
zebra	Darwin	X86_64
chi-aaleali-Mac	Darwin	X86_64
dolphin	Darwin	aarch64
titan	Linux	x86_64

Define a new host

1. Create a new directory with the machine’s host name in modules/hosts/HOST_NAME and copy configuration.nix and home.nix from some other host directory to the newly created one. Then, modify the configuration files per liking.
2. Add the newly created files to git. There is no need to commit the changes at this point. Nix-flake uses git as the underlying file system.
3. Create a new flake entry in flake.nix pointing to the newly added host.