RealFX-Code / nixos-config

My NixOS configuration!

I love nixos, it's great. i want to use it, but to use it i have to have a configuration. (which will be in this repo)

• My NixOS configuration!
  • many many thanks to Chris Titus
  • installation
    • things you might want to change to your specific setup
    • this setup's quirks (important)

many many thanks to Chris Titus

i used his conig as a sort of template to build my own.

if u wanna see his config, it's here .

installation

(assuming you followed the NixOS Installation Manual up until "Installing" point 4)

• Generate NixOS Config using nixos-generate-config --root /mnt
  • This is important to generate the Hardware Configuration (hardware-configuration.nix) as this is machine-specific and won't be included in this repo.
• Remove NixOS Configuration using rm /mnt/etc/nixos/configuration.nix
• Clone git repo to replce existing nix configuration using git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RealFX-Code/nixos-config /mnt/etc/nixos/
• Install NixOS with nixos-install
• Finish setup with the script (in this repo) named postInstall.sh while passing 1 argument which is the username to set up.
  • This copies my dotfiles to the directory of the specified user.
  • Example for setting up the user "leah":
    • $ ./postInstall.sh leah
• Reboot your system using reboot now
• Log into your root account using the password you set when you ran nixos-install
• Set the password for your unpriviliged account using passwd <user> where <user> is the username of the account you set up.
• It is important to give your user account ownership of your home folder using the following command: chown -R <user>:users /home/<user>.
• Done! You can now log out of your root account by simply typing exit and start using NixOS!
• NOTE: My wrapper scripts have moved to my dotfiles repo.

things you might want to change to your specific setup

• Hostname is by-default set to: leah-nixos
• By default, it's configured to use EFI with GRUB.
  • Make sure to enable EFI if running in a VM
• Timezone is set to: Europe/Oslo
• A user named leah is created with sudo access.
• If you really don't want it, You can disable GRUB's OS-Prober in configuration.nix.
• Keyboard layout is set to no.

this setup's quirks (important)

• This setup is supposed to be a "wayland-only" setup. It contains no packages for X11/xorg except for xwayland.
• Uses hyprland and sway by default
• This setup comes with NO desktop manager, you'll be dumped into a TTY upon boot. From there you can run amy of my wrapper scripts (startSway) to open a WM.