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This repo contains the NixOS and Home Manager configurations for my workstations and servers.

NixOS and Home Manager allow me to declaratively configure my machines — enabling reusable and reproducible configurations, and easy rollbacks.

Getting Started

The following instructions assume you're using NixOS. You can still use the home-manager configurations if you're using a different OS — instructions for this use case will be added below in the future.

1. clone this repo
2. symlink your /etc/nixos/ folder to the cloned repo
3. run sudo nixos-rebuild test --flake .#<hostname> — where <hostname> is the name of the host configuration you'd like to apply — from the root of the cloned repo to temporarily apply the configurations
4. once happy with the changes, use sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake .#<hostname> to apply the configurations as a new system generation

Afterward, you won't need to include --flake .#<hostname> in the nixos-rebuild commands (unless you want to use a different <hostname>).

Planned Improvements

See this repo's issues for plans on improvements to the configurations.

Troubleshooting

"no space left on device"

If you get a "no space left on device" error message indicating a full boot drive when attempting to run a nixos-rebuild switch command, you may need to remove old/unused linux kernels from /boot/EFI/nixos. Make sure to leave the kernel used by the current system generation intact.