dotfiles VS horus-nix-home

I’ve found it most helpful to review other people’s configurations to learn Nix.

Some specific ones I really like:

https://github.com/malob/nixpkgs

https://github.com/fufexan/dotfiles

I keep a not comprehensive GitHub Stars list of Nix stuff I find here if you want more:

https://github.com/stars/heywoodlh/lists/nix

If you aren’t familiar, Nix-Darwin allows you to codify your MacOS deployments in a fashion comparable to NixOS. As a huge Nix-Darwin user myself, I have found malob’s repo extremely helpful for ideas with MacOS configuration. Nix-Darwin has made me so happy as a MacOS user. :)

Some other unsolicited tips:

1. Start with Nix flakes for configuration

2. Invest in Home-Manager before NixOS or Nix-Darwin

3. Ask people for help in Matrix or Discourse — my experience is that Nix-related folk are very welcoming and understanding

Good luck!

If you are interested in seeing what a more advanced flake config looks like there is mine https://github.com/Kranzes/nix-config (shameless plug) and fufexan's https://github.com/fufexan/dotfiles.

I've found this config which only uses home-manager and seems to deliver just what I need without much trouble. I already activated flakes and nix-command, initialized home-manager, cloned the repo and did "home-manager switch" upon it, which prompted a installation, everything seemed fine...but after either just restarting my laptop or rebuilding nixos and restarting my system remains the same (with KDE Plasma, nothing changed).

Here's an example of an i3-gaps config: https://github.com/Th0rgal/horus-nix-home/blob/master/configs/i3.nix