With the release of the Nvidia 555 beta drivers and their improvements to
the Wayland experience I've finally decided to return to NixOS with
Hyprland again after 2 years of running Gentoo and Opensuse Tumbleweed
on X11. So this is me committing the work done so far from the last
couple of days. Future commits will be more incremental.

2024-05-24 21:33:00 +02:00

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nixos-system-config

My NixOS configuration.

About

This is the NixOS configuration that I daily drive on my system. Feel free to use, modify and share this configuration to your heart's content, no attribution required.

Screenshots

Wallpaper modified with gruvbox-factory.

todo

Layout

├── assets                              ; Images used by the config and repo
│   └── wallpaper.png
├── flake.lock
├── flake.nix                           ; Entry point
├── machines                            ; Machine specific configuration
│   └── workstation
│       ├── configuration.nix
│       ├── hardware-configuration.nix  ; Modified hardware configuration
│       └── persist.nix                 ; Impermanence configuration
├── packages                            ; Sets of packages to install and configure
│   ├── sets
│   │   ├── games.nix
│   │   └── ...
│   └── wm                              ; Package sets and basic config for WM and DE
│       ├── hyprland.nix
│       └── ...
├── README.md
├── secrets                             ; Git ignored folder to store confidentials
│   └── hu
│       └── pass                        ; Hashed password file for user
└── users
    └── hu                              ; User specific configuration
        ├── packages                    ; Package configurations
        │   ├── firefox.nix             ; Configurations can be for NixOS or home-manager
        │   ├── ...
        │   └── zsh
        │       ├── config              ; Non-nix package config directory
        │       │   └── conf.d
        │       ├── zsh-home.nix        ; For home-manager
        │       └── zsh.nix             ; For NixOS
        ├── persist.nix                 ; Impermanence configuration for the user
        └── user.nix

Installing

This configuration uses impermanence with btrfs snapshots so you'll have to partition your system in a certain way.

First you'll need this partition layout, assuming you're installing on nvme0n1.

DEVICE              FILESYSTEM      PURPOSE
/dev/nvme0n1
├─/dev/nvme0n1p1    vfat            EFI partition
└─/dev/nvme0n1p2    btrfs           Partition to house all the subvolumes

Inside of the btrfs root volume we're going to need 2 subvolumes.

SUBVOLUME           MOUNT           PURPOSE
root                /               Impermanent data
nix                 /nix            Permanent data

You'll also need to create a read-only snapshot of the root subvolume and call it root-blank.

After you've mounted all the subvolumes and EFI partition (/boot) in /mnt clone this repository in to /mnt/nix/config. Adjust all the block ids of the partitions in hardware-configuration.nix and create a hashed password using mkpasswd and store it in the secrets/{user} directory as pass.

Finally, in the config directory run nixos-install --flake '.#', reboot and you're done.