Dotfiles

Distro	NixOS
WM	Hyprland
Bar	Waybar
Editor	Helix + Tmux
FileManager	yazi
WP-Manager	swww
Keyboard	tbk_mini-QMK

.
├── doc
│   ├── assets: Static files like images for documentation.
│   └── notes: Markdown notes.
├── hosts
│   ├── laptop: Laptop configuration (system and hardware settings).
│   └── vm: Virtual machine configuration (system and hardware settings).
├── pkgs
│   ├── derivations: Nix derivations for srcs.
│   └── src: Source code for derivations.
├── secrets: Tokens and certificates.
├── overlay.nix: Custom Nix package overlays.
└── users
    └── emre: User-specific configurations.

Install

New Device Installation

• Boot a nixos ISO.
  • sudo cp ./nixos-minimal-24.11.714287.a45fa362d887-x86_64-linux.iso /dev/sdb
• Become a root user:
  • sudo su
• Go to home:
  • cd
• Find out the disk you want to install nixos to:
  • lsblk
• Create a disko layout, or borrow someone elses layout:
  • Get all layouts in this repo.
    • git clone https://github.com/hakan-demirli/dotfiles
• Format the disk using disko:
  • sudo nix --experimental-features "nix-command flakes" run github:nix-community/disko -- --mode disko ./dotfiles/hosts/vm/hardware/disko.nix --arg device '"/dev/vda"'
• Obtain a new hardware-configuration.nix for your device
  • Generate nixos config:
    • sudo nixos-generate-config --no-filesystems --root .
• Create a new host dir for your device and copy hardware-configurations.nix there:
  • cp ./etc/nixos/hardware-configuration.nix ./dotfiles/hosts/vm/hardware
• Install nixos:
  • nixos-install --root /mnt --flake ./dotfiles/.#vm
• Reboot
  • reboot

Update

• sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake ./.#laptop

Build without switch

• sudo nixos-rebuild build --flake ~/Desktop/dotfiles/#laptop

Deploy Secrets

• nix-shell -p openssl
• read -sp "Enter passphrase: " password && echo && (head -c8 ~/Desktop/dotfiles/secrets/git-crypt-key | grep -q '^Salted__' || { echo "File does not appear encrypted."; exit 1; }) && (openssl enc -d -aes-256-cbc -pbkdf2 -in ~/Desktop/dotfiles/secrets/git-crypt-key -out /tmp/git-crypt-key -pass pass:"$password" && echo "Decryption complete.") && unset password
• cd ~/Desktop/dotfiles/ && git-crypt unlock /tmp/git-crypt-key && ln -s ~/Desktop/dotfiles/secrets/{git_tokens,git_users,git_keys} ~/.config/git/ && ln -s ~/Desktop/dotfiles/secrets/.ssh ~/.ssh