Setup NixOS

Follow NixOS manual, be sure to setup

• Networking / Wireless
• Hostname
• User and password
• nix flake
• (n)vim
• git

on first setup. Then clone this repo and

• possibly add entry for hostname adding new folder under system,
• possibly add entry for user adding new folder under users,
• check / update hardware-configuration.nix.

Then apply.

Build install medium

See nixos-generators

nix build .#nixosConfigurations.jb-nixos-live.config.formats.[raw|raw-efi|install-iso]

Full update

./update.sh && ./apply-user.sh jonas-nixos [jonas-mbp / ...] && sudo ./apply-system.sh

Notes

• nix flake show

• nix repl and :lf .

• Debug derivations: nix develop --ignore-environment .#derivation.system

• nix-flake-lock-nixpkgs

• nix-vim-nixpkgs

Troubleshooting

• macOS update breaks environment

See this bug

Add

if [ -e '/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/etc/profile.d/nix-daemon.sh' ]; then
  . '/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/etc/profile.d/nix-daemon.sh'
fi

to /etc/zshrc

• Alacritty not working properly

Update using brew.

Open

• Get vaapi running on MacBookPro12,1 (chromium takes an incredible amount of cpu)

• Get Cirrus CS4208 running on MacBookPro12,1 (no bass)

• Add home-manager and nixos-options to nix-search

• Ensure nix shell and setting up a flake initially uses the systems nixpkgs: nix-flake-lock-nixpkgs

• Fix nix-search format for "nix search" instead of "nix-env -qaP"

• macho

• gsync

• Clean up minimal / default includes

Backlog

• Reenable newm, add newm-sidecar