❄️ imxyy_soope_'s NixOS Config ❄️

This configuration and READMEs in this repo borrows heavily from ryan4yin/nix-config and his cookbook. Many thanks to his spirit of sharing!

This repository is home to the nix code that builds my systems: Currently, this repository contains the nix code that builds:

1. NixOS Desktop: NixOS with home-manager, niri, neovim, etc.
2. NixOS home server
3. NixOS WSL

See ./config/hosts for details of each host.

Why NixOS & Flakes?

Nix allows for easy-to-manage, collaborative, reproducible deployments. This means that once something is setup and configured once, it works (almost) forever. If someone else shares their configuration, anyone else can just use it (if you really understand what you're copying/refering now).

As for Flakes, refer to Introduction to Flakes - NixOS & Nix Flakes Book

Components

	NixOS(Wayland)
Window Manager	Niri
Terminal Emulator	Alacritty & Kitty & Foot & Ghostty
Bar	Waybar
Application Launcher	wofi
Notification Daemon	SwayNotificationCenter
Input method framework	Fcitx5
Shell	zsh & custom oh-my-zsh
Netease Cloudmusic Player	go-musicfox
Media Player	mpv
Text Editor	Neovim
Fonts	Noto Sans CJK & Jetbrains Mono & Nerd Font
Filesystem	btrfs subvolumes, clean '/' every boot for impermanence

And more...

Folder Structure

• modules/ - custom NixOS modules
• config/base.nix - generic configs
• config/hosts/<name>/ - hosts-specific configs
• lib/ - custom nix library
• pkgs/ - custom packages
• overlays/ - nixpkgs overlays
• vars.nix - my variables
• secrets/ - secrets managed by sops-nix. see ./secrets for details
• flake.nix - flake entry

Deployment Guide

Since this repository is heavily based on my own daily use, it includes, but not limit to, the tweaks listed below:

• auto login some specific TTYs (see ./modules/getty-autologin.nix for details)
• config.my alias for custom modules and config.my.home alias for single user home-manger configuartion
• lib.my utilities to define custom modules conveniently

Therefore, if you want to deploy this setup locally, make sure that you have carefully read every single line of code in this repository.

Then, you can follow the guide to deploy:

0. make sure that you have a very reliable networking environment (you know what I'm talking about)
1. boot into LiveCD
2. repartition your disk, it should be like this:

• /dev/sda
  • /dev/sda1: boot partition (remember to set its type to EFI System in cfdisk, don't ask me why)

3. clone the repository (if you don't have git installed, nix-shell -p git will do the trick)
4. rename one of the folders in the config/hosts folder