Mein dotfiles

A tidy $HOME is a tidy mind.

It takes a touch of madness to use nixOS. I arrived here because there are a few special computers in my life, local and remote, and maintaining them was busywork I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.

Nix, with its luscious tendrils, drew me in with a promise of glorious reproducibility and declared its declarative-ness with enough chutzpah to make anime real again. So, with XDG conventions in hand, I set out to conquer my white whale and annihilate what vestiges of my social life remain.

Quick start

# Assumes your partitions are set up and root is mounted on /mnt
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hlissner/dotfiles/nixos/deploy | sh

This is equivalent to:

DOTFILES=/home/$USER/.dotfiles
git clone https://github.com/hlissner/dotfiles $DOTFILES
ln -s /etc/dotfiles $DOTFILES
chown -R $USER:users $DOTFILES

# make channels
nix-channel --add "https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-${NIXOS_VERSION}" nixos
nix-channel --add "https://github.com/rycee/home-manager/archive/release-${NIXOS_VERSION}.tar.gz" home-manager
nix-channel --add "https://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable" nixpkgs-unstable

# make /etc/nixos/configuration.nix
nixos-generate-config --root /mnt
echo "import /etc/dotfiles \"$$(hostname)\"" >/mnt/etc/nixos/configuration.nix

# make secrets.nix
nix-shell -p gnupg --run "gpg -dq secrets.nix.gpg >secrets.nix"

# make install
nixos-install --root /mnt -I "my=/etc/dotfiles"

Management

• make = nixos-rebuild test
• make switch = nixos-rebuild switch
• make upgrade = nix-channel --update && nixos-rebuild switch
• make install = nixos-generate-config --root $PREFIX && nixos-install --root $PREFIX
• make gc = nix-collect-garbage -d (use sudo to clear system profile)

Overview

• OS: NixOS 19.09
• Shell: zsh
• DE/WM: bspwm + polybar
• Editor: Doom Emacs (and occasionally vim)
• Terminal: st
• Browser: firefox (waiting for qutebrowser to mature)