This repo has been migrated to ~weitanism/nixos-config.

My personal NixOS flake repo.

This project is structured as follows:

• flake.nix: flake file
• machine: configuration for desktops
• server: configuration for servers
• user: configuration for users(home-manager)
• lib: common utility nix function
• pkgs: custom packages
• overlay: overlays

My custom keybinds:

• Alt-o: app launcher
• Alt-Shift-q: kill current window/app
• Alt-h/j/k/l: focus left/lower/upper/right window
• Alt-Shift-h/j/k/l: move focused window to left/lower/upper/right
• Alt-[1-9]: switch to workspace [1-9]
• Alt-p: power menu(lock, poweroff, hibernate, etc.)
• Alt-Enter: open new terminal
• Alt-Shift-Enter: open new emacsclient
• Alt-u: emoji selector

Note: complete list of keybind can be found at user/weitan/i3/config.

1. Partition, format and mount the disk(copied from NixOS official document):

   # Partition the disk.
   # NOTE: replace /dev/sda with /dev/nvme0n1 if using a SSD.
   parted /dev/sda -- mklabel gpt
   parted /dev/sda -- mkpart primary 512MB -8GB
   parted /dev/sda -- mkpart primary linux-swap -8GB 100%
   parted /dev/sda -- mkpart ESP fat32 1MB 512MB
   parted /dev/sda -- set 3 esp on
   
   # Formatting the disk.
   # NOTE: replace /dev/sdaX with /dev/nvme0n1pX if using a SSD.
   mkfs.ext4 -L nixos /dev/sda1
   mkswap -L swap /dev/sda2
   swapon /dev/sda2
   mkfs.fat -F 32 -n boot /dev/sda3
   mount /dev/disk/by-label/nixos /mnt
   mkdir -p /mnt/boot
   mount /dev/disk/by-label/boot /mnt/boot
       

2. Run nixos-generate-config --root /mnt to generate hardware configuration
3. Create config folder for new machine

   # First, drop to a shell with `git` available
   nix-shell -p git
   
   # Clone the repo
   git clone https://github.com/weitanism/nixos-config.git /tmp/nixos
   pushd /tmp/nixos
   # Create machine config directory from template
   cp -a machine/template machine/<your-machine-name>
   # Copy hardware specific config files created in step 2
   cp -a /mnt/etc/nixos/{configuration.nix,hardware-configuration.nix} machine/<your-machine-name>/
   git add machine/<your-machine-name>/
   popd
       

4. Add a system config entry to nixosConfigurations in flake.nix, example:

   # A system named "framework" with "x86_64" CPU and default username
   # "weitan"(will load user home-manager config defined in
   # `user/weitan/home.nix`).
   (mkSystem {
     hostname = "framework";
     username = "weitan";
     system = "x86_64-linux";
   })
       

5. Build your system

   nixos-install --flake /tmp/nixos#<your-machine-name>
       

6. Replace default configuration directory

   rm -r /mnt/etc/nixos
   mv /tmp/nixos /mnt/etc/nixos
       

7. Reboot

Software enabled on my laptop for daily work:

• window manager: i3
• status bar: polybar
• editor: Emacs with evil-mode
• app launcher: rofi

Self-hosted services:

• Notification service: ntfy-sh
• Workflow service: node-red

• Framework
  • CPU: 12th Gen Intel i7-1260P (16) @ 4.700GHz
  • Memory: 64GiB
  • Storage: 1TiB SSD
• ThinkPad X1 Nano Gen 1
  • CPU: 11th Gen Intel i7-1160F7 (8) @ 4.4000GHz
  • Memory: 16GiB
  • Storage: 1TiB SSD
• VPS(DigitalOcean) for self-hosted services
  • Type: Basic
  • CPU: 1vCPU
  • Memory: 512MB
  • Storage: 0.5TiB SSD