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nix-starter-configs
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Home-manager as NixOS module or as standalone?
Is this an example of what you mean (home-manager is defined as part of the flake): https://github.com/Misterio77/nix-starter-configs/blob/main/minimal/flake.nix
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What is the current recommended documentation when starting out with NixOs?
All the resources mentioned in other comments are pretty good, but mostly they are unofficial. The official NixOS wiki is very outdated and unmaintained. You will have better luck reading other people’s configurations, nixpkgs source code and GitHub issues. For the nix language the official wiki is a nice reference https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/language/index.html. This configuration is a great starting point https://github.com/Misterio77/nix-config for learning by example. It covers most of what you may need, although bootstrapping your own config is quite rough. You may want to take a look at https://github.com/Misterio77/nix-starter-configs. It’s very basic and should be simple to understand and improve.
- GNOME on NixOS
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NixOS Reproducible Builds: minimal ISO successfully independently rebuilt
Another good option: https://github.com/Misterio77/nix-starter-configs
I started with this one, the minimal version, then moved on to something more like the standard version, and now I'm moving on to something based on his much more complicated and flexible build in a different repo. I had been flailing, then this repo made it click.
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NixOS and Flakes Book: An unofficial book for beginners (free)
So, it took me an inordinate amount of effort to get to this point, but I find managing my nixos laptop to be idiotically easy now. And, to be clear, I'm not a developer. I just want an easy to use config that I can port over to a new laptop when the time is right (and maybe port a similar config over to my desktop as well, once I get around to installing NixOS).
It's very weird, because I went from "WHY IN GOD'S NAME WOULD ANYONE WANT THIS?" to "my life is now measurably better" over the span of about 48 hours, and I have no idea what clicked. Something about adding flakes to the mix (NixOS + HM + flakes) broke the logjam. Or maybe it was simply how damned useful this config was to learn from:
https://github.com/Misterio77/nix-starter-configs
I went from that to a per-user, per-machine (with defaults for each) config in about an hour, and I haven't fundamentally changed that setup since. I have no idea why it's so compelling to me, but the combination of being able to tell the machine how to configure itself in one place with the ease of adding software ... I'm going to spin up a config this weekend and put it on my kid's laptop. There are other tools to accomplish the same thing, but NixOS is just so easy ... and poorly documented ... and has weird CLI conventions ... and doesn't do a super job of garbage control ... and
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Really confused about Hyprland, flakes and home-manager
I just went on this journey last weekend! It was a rough start but I started to feel a lot more productive when I found this guide on flakes and also used this repo as a starting template.
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Need some Help !
Ok thanks! This one: https://github.com/Misterio77/nix-starter-configs
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Diving straight into flakes with no channels?
I just setup nixos 3 months ago with no prior knowledge and I haven’t needed to use channels at all. I followed this template which I think is straightforward to follow: https://github.com/Misterio77/nix-starter-configs
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New user switching to NixOS
You should check flakes. I think best way to learn how it works (considering you know Nix language) is to check other people's configuration for best practices and structure. You can check repositories on GitHub sorted by star. I personally like hlissner's configuration. I also think Misterio77's configuration is well documented for starters even though I don't like its structure that much.
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Zero to Nix, an unofficial, opinionated, gentle introduction to Nix
https://github.com/Misterio77/nix-starter-configs is probably the closest to that right now.
flake-utils-plus
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How do I deploy a configuration to a machine with an existing hardware-configuration.nix?
Use flake-utils-plus to easily define multiple systems in flake.nix.and then use the --target-host flag of nixos-rebuild to deploy it remotely.
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Have a shell command in configuration.nix that runs on nixos-rebuild
If you're trying to handle multiple systems with one config a flake is a significantly better option. I would personally recommend looking at flake-utils-plus and specifically this example config.
- Nix Flakes
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Best way to manage multiple home manager configs for both NixOS and non-NixOS systems using flakes?
I looked at some past threads / examples and saw people recommend flake-utils-plus, but after reading the examples I don't understand how I would get home-manager on Darwin or Ubuntu.
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Nix: Taming Unix with Functional Programming
Depending on your specific needs, the channelsConfig (modify arguments passed to Nixpkgs) and overlay tooling in flake-utils-plus may be adequate: https://github.com/gytis-ivaskevicius/flake-utils-plus/tree/...
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What to do...
For flakes you don't have to set up everything manually there are helper libraries, I use flake-utils-plus.
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How shall I install a package not found at https://search.nixos.org/packages?
Converting to flakes is not that hard if you use a good library. The documentation is other people's configs, really.
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I made a thing you can load in Nix repl to get variables from your NixOS configuration
Neat! I've been using flake-utils-plus's implementation until now. https://github.com/gytis-ivaskevicius/flake-utils-plus/blob/master/lib/repl.nix
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How to use a patched nixpkgs locally?
I use flake-utils-plus based configuration to apply patches on top of nixpkgs where overlays don't suffice.
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How to downgrade single package?
You can then use the input directly. I am using flake-utils-plus which has this nice overlay-builder:
What are some alternatives?
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
flake-utils - Pure Nix flake utility functions [maintainer=@zimbatm]
nixGL - A wrapper tool for nix OpenGL application [maintainer=@guibou]
poetry2nix - Convert poetry projects to nix automagically [maintainer=@adisbladis]
NixOS-docker - DEPRECATED! Dockerfiles to package Nix in a minimal docker container
deploy-rs - A simple multi-profile Nix-flake deploy tool.
nix-processmgmt - Experimental Nix-based process management framework
NUR - Nix User Repository: User contributed nix packages [maintainer=@Mic92]
digga - A flake utility library to craft shell-, home-, and hosts- environments.
nix-bundle - Bundle Nix derivations to run anywhere!
nixos-shell - Spawns lightweight nixos vms in a shell
nix-update - Swiss-knife for updating nix packages.