Jordan's Nix Configurations

Uses Flakes, Home Manager, and Nix Darwin (for MacOS hosts)

I have tried to put as much of the configuration as possible into Home Manager in order to be portable across different environments.

Hosts

Desktops

medserv: Media server and desktop for viewing. ISA: x86_64-linux

Laptops

tux: My main personal laptop running NixOS and using Home Manager. ISA: x86_64-linux

carby: My backup personal laptop running NixOS and using Home Manager. ISA: x86_64-linux

thinky: My work laptop, currently running Ubuntu 22.04 and using the Nix package manager and Home Manager. ISA: x86_64-linux

mbp: My former work laptop, a MacBook with M1 (ARM) chip running MacOS, using Nix-Darwin and Home Manager. No longer in use, config might be outdated. ISA: aarch64-darwin

Servers

sovserv: Self-sovereign data and services. ISA: x86_64-linux

finserv: Nix-Bitcoin and related services. ISA: x86_64-linux

Other

shared: Configuration that can be shared across multiple hosts.

TODO (High Level)

carby/tux

• Add Hyprland

finserv

• Install NixOS
• Configure nix-bitcoin flake

medserv

• Install NixOS
• Configure tailscale, media viewer e.g. VLC, browser, GSConnect, etc.

sovserv

• Personal portfolio website (TODO)
• Matrix server (TODO)
• Gitea (TODO)
• Obisidian Live Sync (TODO)
• Vaultwarden (TODO)

Task List (Low Level)

• home-manager switch command leads to MediaKeys systemd service failing.
• Configure zsh autosuggest/autocomplete (which one? both?) to avoid using arrow keys for completion.
• Remove repetition by declaring username only once in flake.nix, then passing to other modules.

Research Needed

• On non-NixOS systems, how to declaritively configure things not available in home manger? I think the answer to this is system-manager
  • Postgres/Redis <-- solution for Alta is to run these in containers
  • Docker <-- Possibly replace with Podman which doesn't require root and might be nixable
  • Flatpak <-- No way that I know of to declaritively configure Flatpaks

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Misc. Notes