handdara's dotfiles

_readme needs updating, will get to it soon _

hix: NixOS configuration files

fst: first layer: core tools. right now this is: neovim, wezterm, git & fish.

• git: git config
• him: neovim config

snd: secondary layer: tools that don't fit into core. their dotfiles are here

• kmonad: an amazing keyboard remapping utility! also, it's written in haskell :)
• AwesomeWM: currently testing out as my window manager pick

usage

1. install NixOS
2. enable flakes and set hostname
   1. add nix.settings.experimental-features = [ "nix-command" "flakes" ]; to /etc/nixos/configuration.nix and change the hostname on the line networking.hostName = "<HOSTNAME-GOES-HERE>"; # Define your hostname.
   2. save and rebuild with sudo nixos-rebuild switch. then reboot
3. installing home manager
   1. add home manager channel by running nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/release-24.05.tar.gz home-manager and then nix-channel --update (might need to change out the home-manager release from 24.05 to unstable or whichever channel is being used)
   2. reboot
   3. run nix-shell '<home-manager>' -A install to install home manager standalone
4. personally I like to drop into a shell with some of my favorite utilities to do the rest nix-shell -p neovim fish zoxide fzf eza git just --run "fish"
5. git clone this repo
6. make a new folder dotfiles/hix/machines/<HOSTNAME-GOES-HERE>/ in this repo and copy /etc/nixos/hardware-configuration.nix into it
7. make a new file dotfiles/hix/machines/<HOSTNAME-GOES-HERE>/bootloader.nix and copy the bootloader code from /etc/nixos/configuration.nix into it
   • here's an ezxample

     # bootloader.nix content:
     { config, pkgs, ... }:
     {
       boot.loader.grub.enable = true;
       boot.loader.grub.device = "/dev/nvme0n1";
       boot.loader.grub.useOSProber = true;
     }

8. edit the sysSettings.hostname in dotfiles/hix/flake.nix:

   sysSettings = {
       system = "x86_64-linux";
       hostname = "<HOSTNAME-GOES-HERE>";
       # ... more code ...
   };

9. run just purge && just switch

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