stewart86 / flakes

NixOS Config

My Personal NixOS Configuration using Flake for use with Microsoft Surface laptop 4 with 2 external monitors setup.

Credit when Credit is Due

• Config Originally adapted from ruixi-rebirth minimal install version with additional to some personal applications.

Applications included

Window Manager	Hyprland
Bar	Waybar
Notification	SwayNc
Wallpaper	swww
Terminal	Kitty
Editor	Neovim
NeoVim Config	Astronvim
Browser	Brave
Git Management	Lazygit
App Launcher	Rofi-wayland
Display Manager	TTY
Networking	NetworkManager
Input	Fxitx5
File Manager	nnn, Nemo
Lock screen	SwayLock
shell	fish
Music	mpd, ncmpcpp, mpc, youtube-music, go-musicfox
Video	mpv, youtube-tui
Image	imv
PDF	zathura
Icons	Papirus
Fonts	NerdFonts
Screenshot	grimblast, swappy
Screen record	wf-recorder, OBS
Clipboard	wl-clipboard, cliphist
Other CLI Tools	bat, fd, ripgrep, fzf, btop

Folder Structure and customisation

[TBA]

Setup and Install

0. Prepare a 64-bit nixos minimal iso image and burn it, then enter the live system.

1. Disk Partition (reference from)

parted /dev/sda -- mklabel gpt
parted /dev/sda -- mkpart primary 512MB -8GB
parted /dev/sda -- mkpart primary linux-swap -8GB 100%
parted /dev/sda -- mkpart ESP fat32 1MB 512MB
parted /dev/sda -- set 3 esp on

2. Format the partition with swap

mkfs.ext4 -L nixos /dev/sda1
mkswap -L swap /dev/sda2
mkfs.fat -F 32 -n boot /dev/sda3

3. Mount partition

mount /dev/disk/by-label/nixos /mnt
mkdir -p /mnt/boot
mount /dev/disk/by-label/boot /mnt/boot
swapon /dev/sda2

4. Generate a basic configuration

nixos-generate-config --root /mnt

5. Clone the repository locally

nix-shell -p git
git clone  https://github.com/stewart86/flakes.git /mnt/etc/nixos/Flakes
cd /mnt/etc/nixos/Flakes/
nix develop --extra-experimental-features nix-command --extra-experimental-features flakes

6. Copy hardware-configuration.nix from /mnt/etc/nixos to /mnt/etc/nixos/Flakes/hosts/laptop/hardware-configuration.nix

cp /mnt/etc/nixos/hardware-configuration.nix /mnt/etc/nixos/Flakes/hosts/laptop/hardware-configuration.nix

7. remove '/mnt/etc/nixos/Flakes/.git'

rm -rf .git

8. Perform install

nixos-install --no-root-passwd --flake .#laptop

9. Reboot

reboot

10. Enjoy it!

Cleanup

After successfully installed and booted into Hyprland, it is advisable to move the flake configs to your home folder so you don't have to edit in with sudo rights.

cp /etc/nixos/Flakes/ ~/Flakes

After making your changes all you need is to execute this command in the root folder of the config

sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake .#laptop

You might want to add to your own git repository as a backup. By using git, all rebuild will only effect the portion of code where is it being committed into the repository.

Update packages

nix flake update
sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake --upgrade .#laptop

cleanup generations

After tweaking the configuration around, old generations might pile up. To remove use these commands

sudo nix-env --delete-generations old --profile /nix/var/nix/profiles/system
sudo /nix/var/nix/profiles/system/bin/switch-to-configuration switch

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