This is a NixOS configuration that uses the GNOME Desktop Environment

Other Desktop Environments located on other branches

Recommended steps to install for yourself on NixOS

1. Clone this repo

2. Replace my hardware-configuration.nix with your's

3.Change to your user in configuration.nix

users.users.aidan = { # Here
  isNormalUser = true;
  description = "aidan"; # Here
  extraGroups = [
    "networkmanager"
    "wheel"
    "video"
  ];
  shell = pkgs.zsh;
};

4. Delete the following from configuration.nix. No need to try to back up to my server :)

services.borgbackup.jobs.home-aidan =
  let
    common-excludes = [
      # Largest cache dirs
      ".cache"
      ".cargo"
      "*/cache2" # firefox
      "*/Cache"
      ".config/Code/CachedData"
      ".container-diff"
      ".npm/_cacache"
      # Work related dirs
      "*/node_modules"
      "*/bower_components"
      "*/_build"
      "*/.tox"
      "*/venv"
      "*/.venv"
    ];
  in
  {
    paths = "/home/aidan";
    exclude = common-excludes;
    encryption.mode = "none";
    environment.BORG_RSH = "ssh -o 'StrictHostKeyChecking=no' -i /home/aidan/.ssh/id_rsa";
    repo = "ssh://[email protected]:22/mnt/external_hard/asus_backup";
    compression = "auto,zstd";
    startAt = [ ]; # "daily";
  };

5. Change Resume Device

If you would like to be able to hibernate change this in configuration.nix to a valid partition otherwise remove the following

# Bootloader
boot = {
  resumeDevice = "/dev/nvme0n1p7"; # This line
  kernelPackages = pkgs.linuxPackages_latest;
  loader = {
    systemd-boot.enable = true;
    efi.canTouchEfiVariables = true;
  };
  supportedFilesystems = [ "ntfs" ];
};

6. Help homemanager out

Go to home/default.nix and change my name to your name

home.username = "aidan"
home.homeDirectory = "/home/aidan";

7. Set up your git configuration

Go to home/git/default.nix and change my stuff with your stuff

{ pkgs, ... }:
{
  programs.git = {
    enable = true;
    userName = "AidanV"; # Here
    userEmail = "[email protected]"; # Here
    extraConfig = {
      credential.helper = "${pkgs.git.override { withLibsecret = true; }}/bin/git-credential-libsecret";
    };
  };
}

8. Rebuild System

Navigate to the repo's root folder and run:

sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake .#nixos

If you ever want to upgrade your packages you can run:

sudo nix flake update