Nix, NixOS and Home Manager for mipmip's machine park

This is my mono-repository for my machines configuration and my dotfiles.

Features

• multi machine
• flakes
• Custom patched Suckless Terminal (st)

Mentional NUR's

• A 32 bits Brother printer driver
• Some Gnome Extensions packed directly from Github (useful is maintainers keep behind supporting the latest Gnome Versions)
• mip.rs, a fast and suckless markdown viewer written in Rust.
• WIP: Skull, a tool for managing git working copies on demand.
• some NUR crystal apps

Usage

clone:

cd ~
git clone --recurse-submodules git@github.com:mipmip/nixos.git
cd /etc
mv /etc/nixos /etc/nixos.bak
sudo ln -s /home/pim/nixos nixos

nixos-rebuild:

cd /etc/nixos
sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake .#ojs

Home Manager:

cd /etc/nixos
home-manager switch  --flake .#pim@ojs --impure

TODO

• fix NUR url, maybe nur.nix
• home manager flake
• public features and documentation Usage
• setup firefox profiles: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/help-setting-up-firefox-with-home-manager/23333
• install firefox language packs from nur
• delete i-am-desktop
• new method i-am-secondbrain
• tmux A or B

Lego1

• swap alt/win keys
• commit nixos
• swap ctrl/fn keys
• wayland and scaling

Rodin

• commit nixos

MacOS Provisioning

For macOS provisioning I only use Home-Manager from Nix. Cli tools are declared in home-manager/programs/macos-bundle.nix. Other mac-apps are in home-manager/files-macos/Brewfile. Install them with brew bundle install

• install Homebrew
• install Nix on mac](https://nixos.org/download.html#nix-install-macos).
• then install Home Manager. See Home Manager Manual

NixOS Programming

Check for missing modules

when refactoring it's nice to quickly see which hosts have missing modules. To see this run:

./RUNME.sh missing_modules

Home-Manager Depreciated (remove once tested)

Make sure home-manager is installed. On Mac I home-manager as single user install. On nixos home-manager is installed automatically.

Create home dir conf:

mkdir -p ~/.config/nixpkgs
echo "{\n  allowUnfree = true;\n}" > ~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix

Make the symlink ~/.config/nixpkgs/home.nix pointing to one of the home-confs located in ~/nixos/home-manager/

ln -s ~/nixos/home-manager/home-[some-home-conf].nix ~/.config/nixpkgs/

Test configuration with:

home-manager switch

Home-Manager

home-manager switch  --flake .#pim --impure

Features

Linux Desktop Highlights

I use GNOME as desktop environment with a few extensions to give me some features I'm used too from the time I used macOS as primary OS.

Programming and writing

I payed a lot of time optimizing my terminal and vim configuration. I use St with a few patches for better aesthetics.

My St/Vim writing configuration has a larger line height, a dedicated font, a pure white background together with a grayscale writing theme. Here's a pic showing my writing environment.

Private

Stage 2 of my security strategy is a git submodule with some configurations not relevant for public. This repo does not contain passwords or secrets.