Dotfiles

My dotfiles setup using nix and home-manager.

Current Progress

This has been primarily tested on the following:

• My personal M1 MacBook (via nix-darwin).
• A NixOS-arm64 VM running on said MacBook.

This repo replicates the configuration in my original dotfiles backed by GNU stow.

How to Use

Note: In order to properly symlink some dotfiles, this setup expects this repo to be cloned to your home directory like so: git clone https://github.com/alexxyu/dotfiles ~/.dotfiles.

The repo is structured in the following manner:

.
├── home
│   ├── apps        # GUI applications
│   ├── etc         # misc
│   ├── shell       # CLI utilities
│   ├── default.nix # entrypoint + home-manager setup
├── hosts
│   ├── ...         # each directory should be for a single host
│   ├── system      # common configurations (managed by nix)
└── flake.nix       # entrypoint

See flake.nix for existing configurations that also serve as examples for adding new setups.

Linux

To apply changes to the NixOS system configuration, run sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake .#HOSTNAME.

To apply changes to home-manager, run nix run home-manager -- switch --flake .#USERNAME.

Darwin

Note that the Darwin configuration also makes use of nix-homebrew to manage installations that nix cannot, particular GUI apps.

For Darwin, run nix run nix-darwin -- switch --flake .#HOSTNAME.