nixos-multi-machine-starter

This repository is intended to be a sane, batteries-included starter template for running a LunarVim-powered NixOS development environment on both WSL and on Hetzner Cloud.

This repository is the result of a live refactoring session where I demonstrated how to merge two NixOS configurations for separate machines and machine types into a single flake.

• nixos-wsl-starter
• nixos-hetzner-cloud-starter

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What Is Included

This starter is a lightly-opinionated take on a productive terminal-driven development environment based on my own preferences. However, it is trivial to customize to your liking both by removing and adding tools that you prefer.

• The default editor is initially lvim
• win32yank is used to ensure perfect bi-directional copying and pasting to and from Windows GUI applications and LunarVim running in WSL
• The default shell is zsh
• Native docker (ie. Linux, not Windows) is enabled by default
• The prompt is Starship
• fzf, lsd, zoxide, and broot are integrated into zsh by default
  • These can all be disabled easily by setting enable = false in home.nix, or just removing the lines all together
• direnv is integrated into zsh by default
• git config is generated in home.nix with options provided to enable private HTTPS clones with secret tokens
• zsh config is generated in home.nix and includes git aliases, useful WSL aliases, and sensible$WORDCHARS

Quickstart

You should follow the quickstart steps from either nixos-wsl-starter or nixos-hetzner-cloud-starter depending on if you are targeting the WSL VM configuration or the Hetzner Cloud VM configuration.