nixpkgs / nix home-manager

I currently use Ubuntu and installed nix alongside. This repository contains my personal ~/.config/nixpkgs folder, for sharing, inspiration and retrieving feedback.

This includes home.nix to maintain home-manager, see: https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/index.html

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Disclaimer

This is my personal setup for my local laptop running Ubuntu. I share this for free so everyone can have a look and inspiration or provide feedback to me.

This is not intended to be used by anyone else just by copy and pasting or cloning.

Installation

Install (clone) into ~/.config/nixpkgs.

Install home-manager see: https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/index.html Execute home-manager switch

Usage

Add packages to home.nix and run home-manager switch.

Folder structure

The folder overlays contains overlays for nix itself. E.g. alter packages like patching.

The folder home is related to extras for home-manager. It has the following sub folder:

home/files: Holds configuration files. home-manager doesn't provide modules for all programs. Those files can be loaded via biuiltins.readFile or linked via home.file..
home/programs: Holds home-manager programs. entries. Each file corresponds to a single program. Each file is loaded within home.nix.
home/services: Holds home-manager services. entries. Each file corresponds to a single service. Each file is loaded within home.nix.
home/systemd: Holds custom definitions for systemd services. Each file corresponds to a single service. Each file is loaded within home.nix.

Update

The following will update the whole system and clean things up:

nix-channel --update && home-manager switch && home-manager expire-generations '-30 days' && nix-env --delete-generations +5 && nix-store --gc

This will update the channel (fetch state of nixpkgs). It then will update system. Delete old generations. And run garbage collection.

Manual changes

List of manual needed changes for various reasons.

robo3t desktop file is not linked, that's done by hand for now.

Todos

No particular order:

Fix broken lock screen (i3lock-color)
Migrate ./home/services/languagetool.nix to a custom module (maybe PR upstream).
Migrate other local configurations (inspect ~/.config folder) All other dotfiles in home dir are already migrated :yay:
Migrate mailhog (manually installed right now)
Migrate zsh
Migrate ssh config (I don't really like to expose customer server names and configs to outer world, how to handle?)
Migrate PGP?
Migrate other tools from local system (which are not part of above migrations)
Migrate other systemd services.
Migrate other system configurations like keyboard?!
Migrate desktop environment (is that possible? I select it within ubuntu login screen, guess it needs to be installed or registered somwhere in ubuntu)
Begin migrating further configuration, e.g. php fpm pools and apache config (Again I don't like customer internals in public repo, how to handle?)
Switch to stable channels

Ideas

Maybe I can have a private channel which provides more sensitive info like customer related things and is referenced from here? I then can make that repo private but keep this one here public?

Resources

Some resources I found useful (in no particular order):

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