masonixOS

A flake that is expanding to encompass all dotfiles and system configs across linux/darwin hosts including wsl.

Philosophy

The ultimate goal is to manage the entire system with a flake, but also have the flake be agnostic to the system type. In other words, the flake should work on NixOS, MacOS/darwin, regular linux distros, and WSL (whether nixos or other).

• For NixOS based and nix-darwin, we will use the nixos module system to configure the system as well as home-manager for packages
• For non-nixos or nix-darwin, we will use only the home-manager modules to configure the system packages

Sections information

• nixos/ includes direct nixos configurations
• hosts/ includes host setups that call modules and home-manager configurations based on the host
• custompkgs/ includes my own custom derivations for things that aren't in nixpkgs
• config/ includes dotfiles that are managed through nixos configuration directly

Using the flake

You can build a specific host with

• sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake .#hostname for nixos isolated config
• sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake .#user@hostname for nixos configs + home-manager
• home-manager switch --flake .#user@hostname for just home-manager packages

The flake.nix defines all of the configurations and what modules they call.

Secrets

Some parts of the flake assume access to files that are suffixed with .key. These assume you have been given access via git-crypt.

To add a new device

1. Generate a gpg key
2. Give the public key to the device
3. git-crypt add-gpg-user YOUR_GPG_KEY_ID

Then on new device, close and git-crypt unlock