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My general config and dotfiles for linux
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Will it be possible to create an installation script for this? #2

Open chrollorifat opened 3 months ago

justinlime commented 3 months ago

Well with nix it's usually as simple as rebuilding home-manager using the flake in this repo. Are you looking for a non-nixified script? If so I can grab the dots and write one up

chrollorifat commented 3 months ago

actually i'm new to nixos. so i don't really know how to exactly perfectly rebuild someone else's nixos flake. tried so many times but i get some sort of errors every time. for example, path errors, username doesn't exist type of errors and etc. so I'm really clueless here and i couldn't find any proper guidelines regarding this. FYI, I'm already using nixos official plasma iso.

justinlime commented 3 months ago

actually i'm new to nixos. so i don't really know how to exactly perfectly rebuild someone else's nixos flake. tried so many times but i get some sort of errors every time. for example, path errors, username doesn't exist type of errors and etc. so I'm really clueless here and i couldn't find any proper guidelines regarding this. FYI, I'm already using nixos official plasma iso.

Nix is a lot to get used to. Generally, most of my configs you see are within my home-manager configuration. If you want to build it on your system or a VM to try things out, you can do the following:

git clone https://gtihub.com/justinlime/dotfiles
cd dotfiles

You'll need to add your username to the list in the flake.nix file:

usernames = [ "foobar"];

Then, if you don't have home manager yet, you can bootstrap it really easily with this disgusting looking command from within the repo:

nix run --extra-experimental-features 'nix-command flakes' github:nix-community/home-manager -- switch --flake path:.#brimstone.x86_64-linux.foobar --experimental-features 'nix-command flakes'

This will both bootstrap home-manager and apply my config to your username's $HOME. Keep in mind you need to change "foobar" in the command above to whatever you username is set to in the flake.

If you already have home-manager installed, you can just use:

home-manager switch --flake path:.#brimstone.x86_64-linux.foobar

If Hyprland fails to populate in your display manager, you can just launch with the Hyprland command from a tty