NixOS Configuration Wiki

Welcome to your personal NixOS configuration wiki! This documentation serves as a comprehensive reference for your system architecture, development workflows, and secret management.

Navigation

• Architecture: Understand the modular, flake-based design of your configuration.
• Secrets Management: Learn how to securely handle sensitive data using sops-nix, Age, and GPG.
• Development Workflow: A guide to devenv, direnv, pre-commit, and standardized project setups.
• Hybrid Workflow: How to collaborate with non-Nix users using standard lockfiles.
• Terminal Tools: A quick-reference guide for modern CLI tools like nh, fzf, and lazygit.
• VSCode Profiles: How to use and customize language-specific VSCode profiles.
• Hardware Optimizations: Details on AMD and SSD optimizations for your ThinkPad E14.
• Portability Guide: How to use your Home Manager configuration on other Linux distributions.

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Quick Commands

• Rebuild System: rebuild (aliased to nh os switch)
• Update Home Manager: hm (aliased to nh home switch)
• Check for Secrets: sops secrets.yaml
• Start Project Env: devenv shell
• Initialize Template: nix flake init -t /home/aryan/nixos-config#<template-name>