My personal Nix configuration flake.

Nix configuration flake for my personal machines (macOS and NixOS).

❗I am a complete Nix beginner -- don't blindly copy paste

⌛This is work in progress!

💡Heavily inspired by buntec

Fresh NixOS install

After installing NixOS from a USB drive, follow these steps:

1. Clone this repo and cd into it.

2. Copy /etc/nixos/hardware-configuration.nix into ./system (OK to overwrite existing dummy file).

3. Finally, to build and activate in one step using the apps provided by the flake

nix run .#rebuild-nixos # system configuration
nix run .#hm-switch-nixos # dotfiles and home configuration

Fresh macOS install

(Heavily inspired by this gist)

To bootstrap a fresh macOS install, follow these steps:

1. Install Homebrew (only needed for managing GUI apps via casks)

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

2. Install Nix:

curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh

3. Enable flakes

mkdir -p ~/.config/nix
cat <<EOF > ~/.config/nix/nix.conf
experimental-features = nix-command flakes
EOF

4. To work around this issue

sudo mv /etc/nix/nix.conf /etc/nix/.nix-darwin.bkp.nix.conf

5. Clone this repo, cd into it, then build and activate with the following commands:

nix run .#rebuild-macos # system configuration
nix run .#hm-switch-macos # dotfiles and home configuration

Migrating an existing macOS install to Nix

1. Uninstall Homebrew:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/uninstall.sh)"

2. Delete everything under ~/.config and any other "dot files" in your home directory.

3. Delete all applications that are listed as Homebrew casks in ./system/configuration-darwin.nix

4. Follow the steps for a fresh macOS install.