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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 The official NixOS wiki is very outdated and unmaintained.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.
sops-nix
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Show me the way to cloud infra
For applications, I think environment variables are great. Especially if you adopt nomad because you could also use vault to populate secrets in. For machines that won't work so you'll need something else like https://github.com/Mic92/sops-nix
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how to store secrets needed at install time
I've heard good things about and seen sops-nix used on a few really solid configs. Others tend to use Age or Homeage.
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Nix way to recreate environments including authentication, configuration, etc?
You can use something like sops-nix if you're on NixOS https://github.com/Mic92/sops-nix.
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Building a highly optimized home environment with Nix
Yeah, I don't know how to manage secrets yet. I've read about sops-nix, but I don't have the slightest clue how to integrate it into my own nix-config.
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What would make NixOS more secure?
I use sops-nix for that. Secrets are stored encrypted in the store, and decrypted at runtime.
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What to do...
One think I saw that I don't recommend is to change your password after installing; that's not very reporoducible, use users.users..hashedPassword or users.users..passwordFile with agenix or sops-nix.
- How to handle secrets in NixOS (for Docker container and Systemd Services)?
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How do you manage your private keys?
So, I did some digging. According to the first Dicourse chat that popped up, it's "not possible". That's not an acceptable answer for me ;). I read through HM's appendix to see if there's a mention of private keys there (there weren't). I also know of SOPS (and sops-nix), but that seems to require an SSH/GPG key to decrypt :D.
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A guide to build a Raspberry Pi cluster managed by NixOps
If you only need secrets management, there are quite a lot of bolt-on solutions with little overhead which are also agnostic to the form of deployment, like https://github.com/Mic92/sops-nix or https://github.com/ryantm/agenix. Personally for my machines I want unattended reboots, so I just copy all keys to the hard disk and manage secrets solely with file permissions.
What are some alternatives?
agenix - age-encrypted secrets for NixOS and Home manager
vault-secrets - NixOS tooling for Hashicorp Vault
digga - A flake utility library to craft shell-, home-, and hosts- environments.
nixfiles - My NixOS configuration and assorted other crap.
nixos-config - Mirror of https://code.balsoft.ru/balsoft/nixos-config
nixos-config - My NixOS configurations.
morph - NixOS deployment tool
basedconfig - Configuration for servers/workstations
nixed - I've nixed any chance I have at human interaction by building this config
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
.dots - just my .dotfiles
homeage - runtime decrypted age secrets for nix home manager