My Custom NixOS Configuration

This repository contains my custom NixOS configuration files. This is mostly for my own version control purposes but I figured I would make it public since this is the product of many days of research and effort coming from zero NixOS knowledge, some key features of the config are below:

Key Features

• NuShell by default: The default shell is set to NuShell, which is unsurprisingly written in Rust and is very modern and pretty and fun and POSIX non-compliant ( yah girl lives on the edge ).
• Rust Development: The environment is set up for Rust development, with tools like rustup and cargo pre-installed.
• Hyprland Tiling: Hyprland is now the default tiling window manager and there is no display manager running on the system and Waybar as a system status bar and nix-colors for theming, it also uses Sway notification center to manage push notifications and Swaylock for auth on login as opposed to TTY login.
• Home Manager: User-specific configurations and packages are managed by the Home Manager, making it easy to version control and replicate your user environment, or I guess more accurately my user environment across multiple machines :)

It is structured as follows:

• flake.nix: This is the main entry point for the project. It defines the project's dependencies, inputs, and outputs.
• home-manager/home.nix: This file contains the configuration for the Home Manager, which manages user-specific configurations and packages - basically anything in your home directory onwards.
• home-manager/qt-gtk.nix: This file contains the configuration for the Qt and GTK themes, separated because it gets messy.
• system/configuration.nix: This file contains the system-wide configuration for NixOS.

Getting Started

To use this configuration, clone the repository and cd into the directory, you can then use these two commands in this order to build the system and then home-manager, respectively.

Where .#ishot refers to .#{hostname} if you made changes, otherwise your system is jules@ishot (user@hostname) hehe <3

Also switch can be swapped for build or test which unlike switch will not change your default boot profile and test is probably best if you're unsure about using my config as a reboot will put everything back to normal - more details can be found in the nixos manual for how these commands work.

Pre-build setup for hardware config

DO NOT forget to run the command nixos-generate-config --dir ./ while in the ./system directory of this repo to overwrite my hardware config with the automatically detected settings for your hardware before building or switching to this config!!!

System build command

sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake .#ishot

Home-manager build command

home-manager switch --flake .#jules@ishot

optionally include the following args to backup your .config dir in /home/user

-b /home/.config_backup

Then, run nixos-rebuild switch to apply the configuration.

Please note that you may need to adjust some settings to fit your specific hardware and preferences.

Contributing

If for whatever reason you derive some value from contributing to my configuration, I am not going to protest - feel free to open issues if you actually use this config, and feel free to use it as a basis for your own NixOS system.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details, oh there isn't one? shit I am shocked... ( do whatever you please with this lol, I am surprised if it helps anyone - if you somehow make money off it do share how pls )