NixOS: ❄️ Flakes & 🏠 Home Manager configs

NixOS configuration for personal hosts, along with dotfiles and other home configuration in home-manarer. K8s cluster configs live in the ops repo.

💡 Inspiration

Much of this was inspired by a number of similar repos, online discussions and of course Vimjoyer's excellent videos, e.g. this one.

Other notable repos:

• 3rfaan/arch-everforest
• iynaix/dotfiles
• khaneliman/khanelinix
• n3oney/nixus
• nixinator/nothing
• sjcobb2022/nixos-config
• stephenreynolds/nix-config

See also this comment, on how to use the config, or how to build it, even for remote targets. Mind. Blown. 🤯 Also check out Xe's blog.

🛠️ Installing

Boot from a NixOS install USB, unlock the LUKS devices, mount the LVM volume to /mnt, the ESP partition to /mnt/boot, then run:

sudo nixos-install --root /mnt --flake github:attilaolah/os#home --no-root-password

This will install the workstation (#home config).

🚧 TODO

Add remote builds for other machines:

• Crostini
• VirtualBox
• WSL
• Secrets & keys

The WSL config is currently only managing home-manager, the host config should be committed eventually. For now the home-manager config can be installed as a flake:

nix run nixpkgs#home-manager -- switch --flake github:attilaolah/os#wsl

Set up impermanence.