NixOS

• There is controversy about flakes, rather use channels (e.g. with niv)

Build and Switch

• https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nixos-rebuild

Directly change to new config, make it default:

sudo nixos-rebuild -I nixos-config=yodaTux/configuration.nix switch

Install Home Manager with niv

• https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/tree/release-23.05#releases

To avoid breaking users' configurations, Home Manager is released in branches corresponding to NixOS releases ( e.g. release-23.05).

Home Manager provides both the channel-based setup and the flake-based one.

Check your channel:

sudo nix-channel --list
#=> nixos https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-23.05

Use the corresponding branch:

niv add nix-community/home-manager -n home-manager -b release-23.05

disko and nixos-anywhere

• Introductive presentation: https://pad.lassul.us/cccamp-workshop
• disko: https://github.com/nix-community/disko
• nixos-anywhere: https://github.com/numtide/nixos-anywhere/

TODO

General Notes

Nix Pills

• https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/pr01

It provides a tutorial introduction into the Nix package manager and Nixpkgs package collection, in the form of short chapters called 'pills'.

Thesis

There are two (?) theses about Nix. One is https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf

Search for packages

• https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=23.05

TODOS

• FDE remote SSH unlock: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Remote_LUKS_Unlocking