NixOS is installed with GNOME with the following system configuration:
| Setting | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | David Kopczynski |
| User | user |
| Password | (found in Bitwarden) |
When dealing with installations in .nix, general hardware, different hosts, and general installations are differentiated as follows:
| Directory | Description |
|---|---|
./channels |
channel configuration for other configs |
./derivations |
custom derivations for the system |
./hosts |
specific hardware / system configurations |
./install |
general installation configurations |
./resources |
resources for the system |
This repository offers a set of custom commands that can be used to manage the system using please:
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
please clean |
clean the system of old data and generations |
please optimize |
optimize the system store disk usage |
please switch |
build the system with the latest data and switch to it |
please test |
test build without creating EFI entry point |
When dealing with NixOS, the following native commands can also be used to manage the system:
| Command | Reason |
|---|---|
nix-shell -p <package> |
install a package temporarily |
Hosts store systematic differences between machines. Currently, laptop and workstation are used in this repository.
When copying the system to a new device it is necessary to add some base configuration to the system in order to clone this repository. Afterwards, the setup script can be run with sh setup.sh to load this repository for the first time (when migrating the system to another device, the keystore in ~/.local/share/keyrings should also be copied to the new device, as well as the SSH keys in ~/.ssh and age keys in ~/.config/sops/age), followed by sudo nixos-rebuild switch to build the system.
Additionally, channels must be subscribed to manually with sudo nix-channel --add $URL $NAME and updated with sudo nix-channel --update. This setup requires the following channels:
sudo nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/release-24.11.tar.gz home-manager
sudo nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-24.11 nixos
sudo nix-channel --add https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/archive/master.tar.gz nixos-hardware
sudo nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-unstable nixos-unstable
sudo nix-channel --add https://github.com/Mic92/sops-nix/archive/master.tar.gz sops-nix