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Looking for dotfiles repo examples
This one issue may clear things up, seems like my config is a little outdated: https://github.com/divnix/digga/pull/385
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Building a highly optimized home environment with Nix
I'm new to the Nix world, but so far I've come across Divnix's Digga, Numtide's DevShell, and Misterio77's nix-starter-configs.
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Need for a configuration framework?
There are config templates / configuration helper libraries that try to make this easier, for example digga/devos.
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(meme) It's a temporary setback really
https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Flakes, especially the “see also” section. If you’re looking to use for NixOS config across multiple hosts, digga (see the repo for example template) is pretty nice for encapsulating a lot of boilerplate.
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Sharing configuration between NixOS and MacOS
The digga library, while being more complex to use than other solutions here, got a pretty elegant solution for it merged a few weeks ago. Still some cracks that are getting smoothed over, but it seems to work.
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Best practices for organizing code repository for multiple machines? What about deployment?
I like the concept digga/devos uses (unfortunately their stuff kind of is an overengineered incomprehensible mess): They use: - modules: for modules like in nixpkgs (i.e. stuff that defines options and generates configuration based on that options; are included into every host) - profiles: concrete configuration, can be included to host definitions - suites: sets of profiles (so you can for example have a desktop suite with all your profiles with "desktop" configuration options and apply that to all your desktop computers)
- Nix: An idea whose time has come
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The Curse of NixOS
For the system, I like the devos template:
https://github.com/divnix/devos
The idea of flakes is how you define inputs, and you define the system (and packages, and shell etc.) in the outputs using the inputs. The inputs are git repos which point to other flakes. You can mix and match these as much as you want (see the devos repo for examples) and when you build the derivation, it generates a lockfile for exact commits in that point in time what were used in the given inputs.
You commit the lockfile and in the other systems where you pull your config from the repo, it uses exactly those commits and installs the same versions as you did in your other systems.
This was quite annoying and hard to do before flakes. Now it's easy.
The problem what people face with building their system as a flake is combining the packages so you can point to `jq` from the unstable nixos and firefox from the stable train. I think this aspect needs better documentation so it wouldn't be so damn hard to learn (believe me, I know). Luckily there are projects like devos that give a nice template for people to play with (with documentation!)
Another use for flakes is to create a development shell for your repo, an example what I did a while ago:
https://github.com/pimeys/nix-prisma-example
Either have `nix-direnv` installed, enter the directory and say `direnv allow`, or just `nix develop` and it will gather, compile and install the correct versions of packages to your shell. Updating the packages? Call `nix flake update` in the directory, commit the lockfile and everybody else gets the new versions to their shell.
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What's the proper way to set up nix / home manager w/ flakes, directory wise?
Yes, I put the repository in ~/nix. My repository is based on devos, but I am thinking of switching to a different setup, because I don't want to depend on a framework which can be an issue in updating.
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The future of Home Manager and Flakes
I no longer use the official way since I have switched to flakes. I am currently using a devos-based config, which is a boilerplate that depends on a Nix toolchain, but I plan on rewriting the config with flake-utils-plus. You probably can install home-manager using deploy-rs. See the following comment:
nixos-config
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Is there any equivalent to a curated Fedora/Ubuntu? A NixOS-based distro or metarepo of configs perhaps?
balsoft: https://github.com/balsoft/nixos-config
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Home-manager mime wildchar
Examples: - https://github.com/gmarmstrong/dotfiles/blob/master/nixpkgs/home.nix - https://github.com/balsoft/nixos-config/blob/master/profiles/applications-setup.nix - https://github.com/gytis-ivaskevicius/nixfiles/blob/master/home-manager/common.nix - https://github.com/xtruder/nix-profiles/blob/master/home-manager/roles/desktop/work.nix
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I'm Here Because of a Meme - Looking for Pointers
I am not in a state to write a detailed recommendation list for all the things you've mentioned, but: - There is indeed an official Matrix room: #nix:nixos.org . I believe this is the most popular Nix community out there. - As for multiple hosts, there are different approaches out there. Typically you will write NixOS "modules" (which are like pieces of configuration) and then merge (combine) them together, along with some machine-specific overrides, to get configurations for all your machines. I do something similar for my config. Here are the modules: https://github.com/balsoft/nixos-config/tree/master/profiles which configure different pieces of my system, then those modules are combined into "roles" (e.g. here's a desktop role: https://github.com/balsoft/nixos-config/blob/master/roles/desktop.nix) and then those roles are imported from actual machine configs with some overrides (e.g. here's the config for the box I'm writing this from: https://github.com/balsoft/nixos-config/blob/master/machines/AMD-Workstation/default.nix)
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Can configuration.nix manage GTK themes?
Hey, inkscape build seems to be broken, but I have made a new working derivation that uses resvg instead: https://github.com/balsoft/nixos-config/blob/master/modules/workspace/gtk.nix#L32
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How do you manage your private keys?
I use a custom pass-based hack: https://github.com/balsoft/nixos-config/blob/master/modules/secrets.nix and https://github.com/balsoft/nixos-config/blob/master/modules/secrets-envsubst.nix. My actual GPG key is on my yubi.
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nix-dram: Nix flakes with a modified frontend
Adding self to local registry is done here: https://github.com/balsoft/nixos-config/blob/master/modules/nix.nix#L6
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Is there a way to use niv with NixOS configuration ?
Ok, just checked with that nix version and my nixos-config, and I can build my configuration without .git in it.
What are some alternatives?
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
agenix - age-encrypted secrets for NixOS and Home manager
nixos - My NixOS Configurations
sops-nix - Atomic secret provisioning for NixOS based on sops
inkscape
nix-darwin - nix modules for darwin
nix-profiles - Configuration profiles for x-truder networks
nixos-generators - Collection of image builders [maintainer=@Lassulus]
nixos-config - KISS NixOS configuration based on Flakes & flake-parts (supports macOS too)
nixos - A fully automated replicable nixos configuration set
.dots - just my .dotfiles