configs but it's actually a NixOS configuration

Most configs in here can be used without NixOS though, those are in the directory config.

What this contains

All of my configurations which would be needed to set up a new system and develop on it. That includes Neovim, Neovide, Alacritty, Sway, i3 and more.

Where possible, I try to use open-source software. Notable exceptions to this include CUDA, Obsidian and Steam (and all applications installed through it). I try to move away from them, but sometimes it's simply not possible (yet).

Development is actually rarely done on the actual machine, but rather in VMs, which are collectively and individually called "elusive". See the elusive README for details.

Installation

Note: This will install all configs without asking. Did I mention that the scripts used are hardcoded to /home/multisn8 as the home path for the time being? Yeah, this tells a lot about when it should be used by you — never, at least not under extensive change. Take these configs as reference, not as template. Examine where I went wrong in your opinion, and do it better.

Systemwide (as in, NixOS itself)

First of all, you need a running NixOS installation. No, the live ISO doesn't suffice. Nor does it nixos-entered into the to-be-installed system. If you're just setting up a fresh NixOS instance on this machine, I recommend just going for a very basic bootloader-only config first which boots you to the Linux console and already has a multisn8 user with sudo access. Possibly slight modification of the the default generated by nixos-generate-config already suffices for this.

Then for the actual fun. All system management stuff on my system is stored in ~/zukunftslosigkeit, and by extension the configs are supposed to (as in, do not have to, but should be) be in ~/zukunftslosigkeit/configs. In the toplevel directory are two neat scripts called distribute_symlinks.py and readjust_perms.py, the first one spreading symlinks to /etc/nixos, ~/.config/... and the like to point into this repository, and the latter one adjusting the permissions properly to be changeable by multisn8.

Running distribute_symlinks.py backs up potentially previous files into ~/_archive/<timestamp> before overwriting. You should also run nixos-generate-config afterwards to make sure your hardware config is also fitting.

All in all, that'd be this:

mkdir -p ~/zukunftslosigkeit
cd ~/zukunftslosigkeit
git clone https://github.com/MultisampledNight/configs
cd configs
sudo ./distribute_symlinks.py
sudo ./readjust_perms.py
nixos-generate-config

However, this won't suffice. One final step remains. Actually creating a configuration.nix utilizing the modules provided by this repo. In specific, you likely want to include

• generalized.nix and set its options, which provides the base set of options almost all other modules refer to.
• possibly development.nix if you intend to do any kind of development on this machine.
• possibly a hardware-specific model like portable.nix or desktop.nix if this is a physical machine rather than a container or the like.

For example, you could take a look at the elusive configuration.nix which is a development VM, or this one which is (basically) the configuration.nix of one of my physical machines:

# vim: ts=2 sw=2 et

{ config, pkgs, lib, ... }:

{
  imports =
    [
      ./hardware-configuration.nix
      ./generalized.nix
      ./desktop.nix
    ];

  generalized = {
    hostName = "no";
    wireless.wlan = true;
    externalInterface = "wlan0";
    ssd = true;
    ssh = true;
    xorg = true;
    wayland = true;
    audio = true;
    profileGuided = true;
    videoDriver = "nvidia";

    forMulti = true;
  };

  # Before changing this value read the documentation for this option
  # (e.g. man configuration.nix or on https://nixos.org/nixos/options.html).
  system.stateVersion = "23.05"; # Did you read the comment?
}

Afterwards, run sudo nixos-rebuild boot && reboot, and you're good to go!

User-only (does not require root)

Note: Untested. At your own risk.

mkdir -p ~/zukunftslosigkeit
cd ~/zukunftslosigkeit
git clone https://github.com/MultisampledNight/configs
cd configs
./distribute_symlinks.py --exclude-nixos

You'll need to get the Neovim plugins from somewhere else though then.