NixOS Machines Configuration

This repository contains my configurations for my Linux PCs that run NixOS.

Quickstart

To get up and running quickly, run the following in a shell on a NixOS system:

nixos-rebuild switch --no-write-lock-file --flake github:frogamic/nix-machines

Repository Structure

Configuration

machines

This folder contains the machine specific configurations. Each configuration should be named after the machine's hostname. I am not using hardware-configuration per machine.

services

This is where the bulk of the config sits. Each file here should be a nix module that fully encapsulates a "service" or bundle of packages and config to achieve some purpose.

services/base.nix

This is a sort of meta-service that applies some personalisation and baseline configuration and imports a number of other services that would be common across all machines.

services/hardware

This is a subset of 'services' relating to specific hardware such as GPU/CPU supporting config and packages.

config

This is for config files that are consumed by services and built into the nix-store.

bin

This is where executable files that will be included in the build are stored.

users

This is where users accounts are configured. Since my PCs are all single user there is only me.

Overlay

Part of this configuration is an extension to nixpkgs in the form of an overlay supplying mypkgs and mylib, and a set of modules providing their own options.

lib

Helper functions to build out the module. Output from the flake as .lib.

mylib

Helper functions that depend on nixpkgs, intended to be used via the included default overlay like nixpkgs.mylib.<fn>.

pkgs

Extra packages, available under mypkgs in the overlay.

Modules

Extra modules to provide more generalised extra configuration for my machines and theoretically other consumers of this flake. Technically there is no difference between these and those in services except for the intent.