Nix Dotfiles

My declarative dotfiles configuration using nix and home-manager to manage my systems.

This configuration should work in all distribution in theory, but because nixpkgs has some issue with opengl, some features may not work. Namely alacritty and picom won't be able to launch if you are not using NixOS.

Installation

NixOS

Simply run the command with flakes enabled to get my full NixOS configuration

nixos-rebuild switch --flake .#<host> -use-remote-sudo

Hosts

	Type	Name	Hardware	Purpose
💻	Laptop	WSL	Surface pro 4	Build for WSL for my old surface pro 4.
💻	Laptop	namira	Ideapad Y580, 16GB ram	Super old laptop that I still use on the go
🖥️	Desktop	azura	AMD Ryzen 5 7600, 32GB ram	Main dev machine and gaming rig
☁️️	Server	Sheogorath	i5-4690K, 32GB ram, 24TB raidz1	Main server for media and services. Previous desktop.
☁️	Server	Jyggalag	Oracle A1 free tier, 4 cores, 24GB ram	Mostly to monitor Sheogorath services and trigger alerts.

Nix-Darwin

nix develop
darwin-rebuild switch --flake .#

Home manager

Make sure flakes are enabled on your system.

nix develop
home-manager switch --flake .#<profile>

where <profile> is your desired profile.

Name	Description
minimal	Minimal TUI headless server
dev	Headless development
graphical	GUI applications
desktop	Full fledge DE and GUI apps

Usage as module

You can use this flake as a module to your home-manager configuration or your NixOS configuration.

NixOS module

To use as a NixOS module

{
  inputs = {
    nixpkgs.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
    home-manager.url = "github:nix-community/home-manager/master";
    nix-dotfiles.url = "github:xgroleau/nix-dotfiles";
  };

  outputs = { nixpkgs, home-manager, nix-dotfiles, ... }: {
    nixosConfigurations = {
      example = nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem {
        system = "x86_64-linux";
        modules = [
          nix-dotfiles.nixosModules
          # Enable some modules
          {
            home = {
              enable = true;
              username = "xgroleau";
              profile = "minimal";
            };
          }
        ];
      };
    };
  };
}

Home-Manager module

To use for your home-manager configuration.

{
  inputs = {
    nixpkgs.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
    home-manager.url = "github:nix-community/home-manager/master";
    nix-dotfiles.url = "github:xgroleau/nix-dotfiles";
  };

  outputs = { nixpkgs, home-manager, nix-dotfiles, ... }: {
    homeConfigurations = {
      example = nix-dotfiles.utils.homeConfigurationFromProfile {
        home-manager.lib.homeManagerConfiguration {
          pkgs = nixpkgs.legacyPackages.${flake-utils.lib.system.x86_64-linux};
          modules = [ 
            nix-dotfiles.homeManagerModules
            # Enable some modules
            {
              # Minimum HM requirements
              home = {
                username = "xgroleau";
                homeDirectory = "/home/xgroleau";
                stateVersion = "23.11";
              };
              modules.shell.zsh.enable = true;
            }
          ];
      };
    };
  };
}

Checks

To check formatting with nixfmt and analyze with statix you can run

nix flake check

Or to apply the changes directly, you can run.

nix run .#fmt