nix-config VS nix-config

Power user, gvolpe has a great config that heavily customizes nvim.

I forked and customized a fairly advanced Nixos configuration that I can load from a flake on github. (Mine | Original)

I think gvolpe's nix-config repo is what u/ppen9u1n was referencing. Looks like there might be some good ideas to mine there.

I've seen this done with flakes by a NixOS power user named gvolpe. He has it configured to automatically setup each of his different systems with Home Manager, a custom UI, etc. His three different build targets are:

I think NixOS would benefit from easily accessible collection of opinionated modules/profiles/configurations with minimal set of options. Something like gnome-desktop / sway-desktop / etc. Gnome actually does pretty good job here.

The point is: currently my NixOS and Home Manager configurations have over 2k LOC total. When you search for configurations on GitHub/Google you are likely to find complex ones. For example, quick search for "nixos gnome" (Google) gives me link to NixOS Wiki (which describes only Gnome part) and blog post (https://gvolpe.com/blog/gnome3-on-nixos/) which is useful but links to really huge configuration (https://github.com/gvolpe/nix-config) that is overwhelming to any beginner.

Great example of such approach is nixos-hardware (https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware) which provides one-line configuration covering hardware quirks.

That explains why it works so well as a persona filter.

If you use NixOS with flakes, you literally just change the revision hash in a flake file and press compile and your whole system updates and compiles as if you had installed that new version (with all of its dependencies regardless of how much they've changed) with a Docker-esque guarantee that everything is configured properly. I have a full NixOS confg with Cardano Node here if you'd like a starting point.

If you’re curious, simply run it on a VM if you’re too scared to hurt your daily driver: https://github.com/harryprayiv/nix-config My plutusVM branch runs a tiling window manager (xmonad with polybar) and has all kinds of cool features that just work ever since I got them setup.

It pulls down a json file from an api link, pipes that json into jq to extract the relevant info, then filters it through sed to get rid of the quotes. I'm pretty proud and wanted to share since this is my very first custom module. Here's a link to my NixOS config with it working flawlessly.

I forked and customized a fairly advanced Nixos configuration that I can load from a flake on github. (Mine | Original)