My NixOS flake made with snowfall.

Systems

• Apollo: Homeserver

  • Running the following services on a tailscale network
    • Audiobookshelf
    • Calibre / Calibre Web
    • Firefly III
    • Immich
    • Jellyfin
    • Nextcloud
    • Mealie
    • Wanderer

• Ares: Workstation (AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, NVIDIA RTX 3070)

  • Dual boot with Windows

• Athena: Lenovo Yoga Pro 7X Slim Nvidia

  • Used for development

Installation

1. Enable flakes in nixos. By adding the following lines to /etc/nixos/config.nix.

nix = {
  package = pkgs.nixFlakes;
  extraOptions = "experimental-features = nix-command flakes";
};

2. Add git to your nixos configuration.

systemPackages = with pkgs; [
  git
];

3. Rebuild nixos by running sudo nixos-rebuild switch.
4. Clone repo git clone [email protected]:wueestry/nixos-config.git. Enter into repo by running cd nixos-config.
5. Copy own hardware file into repo sudo cp /etc/nixos/hardware-configuration.nix ~/nixos-config/systems/{computer architecture}/{desired config}/hardware.nix.
6. Build flakes by running sudo nixos-rebuild boot --flake .#{desired config}.
7. Optional: Update nixpkgs by running nix flake update and then rebuild system as described in step 6.

Add your own config

1. Add your own nixos config into the directory systems/{computer architecture}/{config name}/default.nix.
2. Add your hardware config to systems/{computer architecture}/{config name}/hardware.nix.
3. Add your home manager config into the directory homes/{computer architecture}/{user}@{config name}.
4. Optional: Add specific nixos-hardware package to the flake.nix file. Similar to:

systems.hosts.athena.modules = with inputs; [
  nixos-hardware.nixosModules.lenovo-yoga-7-14ARH7-nvidia
];

Generating user-dirs

After a fresh install, the user home directory is completly empty. In order to generate the Documents, Downloads, eg. subfolders run

nix-shell -p xdg-user-dirs
xdg-user-dirs-update

Inspiration

Thanks to the work of the following projects which inspired this configuration:

• anotherhadi/nixy
• jakehamilton/config