Dotfiles and Nix/NixOS settings

• home-manager: dotfile manager, runs as a configuration.nix extension

• the way it is organized its not necessary to place the nix files in the default locations like

  • /etc/nixos/configuration.nix
  • ~/.config/nixpkgs/home.nix

• multiple interchangeable graphical environments

  • i3: daily driver, working nice, playback buttons works when locked
  • gnone, xfce and kde: not using anymore, may delete later

• machines referenced:

  • riverwood: my main laptop, Acer A315-51-51SL 12GB RAM 1TB SSD dual booted with windows 10 (i think)
  • whiterun: my battlestation, Ryzen 5600G, 32GB RAM 1TB SSD + 2x1TB DVR HDDs + a RTX 3060 in the future
  • ravenrock: a machine in the cloud, it's provisioned using terraform from infra/turbo/gcp.tf

• licence

  • nothing special
  • don't blame me
  • have fun

• suggestions?

  • open a issue
  • let's learn together 😄

• NixOS > Arch

  • change my mind
  • (yes, I have used arch btw for around 1 year, it's a good distro but NixOS is better for my workflow)
  • nix-shell rocks
  • the possibility of rollback at any time in a simple way, even if the distro fails to boot, is like magic
  • you can also replicate very precisely your configuration on another machine, but only if that is defined in Nix, imperative settings are left behind
  • not perfect but it's really easy to feel physical pain using something else or packaging software that tries to download stuff at build time