Michael-C-Buckley/nixos
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Section titled “My System Configuration”This flake is the major collection of all things I use to manage my systems. It contains primary use systems, like desktop, laptop, and some servers.
I do have some things spun off like a few other servers and secrets. Servers will be coming after some more flake-parts build-out on my part.
Caveat: I have included some custom options merged into the default Nix options namespace. Copying small sections can incur breakage this way, especially from networking (with advanced options since I am a network engineer). Private secrets are also in another repository (as a means to prevent harvest now, decrypt later).
Major Frameworks
Section titled “Major Frameworks”The flake is nearly a full dendritic implementation. Everything within /modules are flake-parts modules and collected with import-tree, per the usual layout. I still have some elements scattered around that are not in the pattern.
This is a new addition to me and I am still exploring and integrating the possibilities. The point is to streamline the flow and it may not ever fully comply with the pattern.
This project makes fairly heavy use of flake-parts. It is the required supporting library for Dendritic patterns.
Hjem is a NixOS module-based user home configuration framework. It is like Home-Manager in that it allows a user’s home to be declared. It is different as it follows a much leaner approach. I prefer the higher performance, more reliable codebase and mechanisms, and lack of overly opinionated defaults in my configs. It does not provide modules but another project, Hjem-Rum does.
A small number are files are handled by simple recursive linker setup in modules/user/findFiles.nix that pulls and links all the files from modules/user/files. It rebuilds the nested folder structure in my $HOME exactly as-is. This is useful for anything that doesn’t have a module without having to write declarative boilerplate.
NVF is a Neovim framework in Nix. It trivialized creating and maintaining a custom nvim setup. I never did traditional nvim configuration, and I don’t think I ever will since this exists. My setup is standalone nested under packages/nvf. I ship a few variants depending on if its a basic config for servers or extensive for development hosts. They have similar UI but differing setups on language servers, mainly. I also have one variant for use with Vscode-Neovim plugin, which does work.
Nvfetcher
Section titled “Nvfetcher”I recently picked up Nvfetcher as a means to pull down dependencies that aren’t flakes. So far, I am just using it in package derivations, like Helium, but I expect to grow this as it is useful to not have to flake input everything.
The motivation is decreasing the amount of inputs and I’ll be selecting inputs which do not depend on the flake metadata tree and no have inputs. The upside is increased performance from lazier evaluation and reduced dependency tree sizes, as well as not having to copy these sources to the nix store, even if they’re not used.
Credits & Thanks
Section titled “Credits & Thanks”A few people I would like to thank, though by no means an exhaustive list.
Iynaix - For various things including providing excellent examples for repl.nix, Impermanence, and ZFS, among other sane ideas like a format script over Disko
Raf - For endless Rafware (like NVF and Hjem, many others) and all the work maintaining quality software in the community
TeamWolfya - For helping me get onto Flake-parts and showing me all kinds of resources
Vimjoyer - For various simple videos that help get me started when I was still new, especially to Flakes
Fazzi - For some quality Hjem examples that helped finally sort cursor and theming issues
No Boilerplate - For the video that introduced me to NixOS and started this journey