My Personal Home Configuration using Nix home-manager

This is my personal home configuration using home-manager as a standalone util. Its structure is an attempt at a modular and flexible design and is intended to be used both standalone on non-nixos systems and along with NixOS system configs like my NixOS config (also as a standalone non-root tool). The structure is inspired by EmergentMind's config as well as a heap of others. It currently only configures one user and host, but is structured such that more can be added in the future with varying configs as needed.

This config:

• Uses flakes
• Uses the 24.11 branch
• Is meant to be used both on NixOS with a separate system config, and on non-nixos systems

Bootstrapping

As a reminder to myself and as a resource to anyone seeking inspiration, here is the bootstrapping process:

1. Move to the location you want your config to live (I put mine in ~/dotfiles)

2. Clone this repository:

   $ git clone [email protected]:otytlandsvik/dotfiles.git

3. Make your desired modifications to home.nix (opt in or out of any optional modules, or change the entire config if you like)

4. Remember to change the output target in flake.nix to reflect your username and point to the correct nix file

5. Install the home-manager standalone tool using Nix (the package manager):

   $ nix-shell -p home-manager

   Or, on NixOS you can also make it available as a system package:

   environment.systemPackages = [
     pkgs.home-manager
   ];

   Or, on NixOS you can also make this package explicitly available to your user:

   users.users."username" = {
   
     ...
   
     packages = [ pkgs.home-manager ];
   };

   After bootstrapping, home-manager will install and manage itself. That's why it's sufficient to run it in a nix-shell.

6. Build the config using home-manager (as an example, if username was added as a flake output):

   $ home-manager switch --flake .#username

Note

The . here evaluates to the cwd. It must be a path to the directory containing flake.nix

Now your dotfiles are managed by home-manager!

Test it by running one of the programs configured, like nvim.