Hello everyone, I’m very close to finishing my configuration files for NixOS. I have those working on my nixos installation on my external drive, but before I officially move to nixos I’d like to make sure that I’m not doing something wrong.
Could someone please check my config files? (I only use flakes.nix, configuration.nix, home.nix and hardware.nix and I’d say they aren’t much complicated.)
My main concearn is that I probably use the import
and modules
functions wrong (yet somehow they work?). I’ve read and watched numerous guides for the last 3 months, but I think I still mess this up😅. I think following a bunch of different guides and videos added to the confusion a bit. (A recent guide I read made me have doubts about my set up.)
This is the link to my nixos configs:
https://codeberg.org/BlastboomStrice/dotfiles/src/branch/main/.config/nixos-conf
Hopefully by the end of the next week I’ll be posting here about having transitioned to linux/nixos:)
Sample of probably wrong usage of modules
in flakes.nix
outputs = {self, nixpkgs, ... }@inputs: {
nixosConfigurations = {
nixos = nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem {
system = "x86_64-linux";
specialArgs = { inherit inputs; };
modules = [
./hosts/default/configuration.nix
inputs.home-manager.nixosModules.home-manager
{
home-manager.useGlobalPkgs = true;
home-manager.useUserPackages = true;
home-manager.users.bs = import ./hosts/default/home.nix;
home-manager.extraSpecialArgs = { inherit inputs; };
}
# inputs.spicetify-nix.nixosModules.default
Sample of probably wrong usage of imports
in configuration.nix
imports =
[ # Include the results of the hardware scan.
./hardware-configuration.nix
#inputs.home-manager.nixosModules.default
];
(I think I’m not using home manager in configuration.nix
, that’s why I’ve commented it out, and I’m importing it directly in flakes.nix
.)
Indeed, that looks better, thanks for the suggestion and your help! :)