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Milo Gertjejansen's dotfiles

❄️✨🐧🔥 Now with Nix Flake hotness. 🔥🐧✨❄️

Usage

This probably isn't useful to anybody but me, but here you go:

First run

HOSTNAME=your_host_name make config

Subsequent runs

After the first run HOSTNAME will be set on the system, so you can just run

make config

Make sure to restart your shell or tmux session if you haven't after the first run. Otherwise the HOSTNAME environtment variable will still not be set

Updating the flake.lock for new versions

make update

Why Nix?

@rpearce turned me onto this. I used to be an Arch Linux guy, but configuring it got tiresome since I'd change things and I forgot what I changed but magically things started working.

Nix solves that for me so if I mess something up I can just roll back to a previous generation.

Also, all the configuration is stored in a git repo, so if I undo something but find I actually did want it everything is searchable.

Features

Nix - obviously. I can add a program by running make.
Modules - Modules exist for parts of my system that can be broken off and run elsewhere.
- At the moment I have a single module, Neovim.
Different machine configurations - I can keep each machine configured separately as well as different users.

Your machines?

Hostname	Platform	Name history
`theseus`	NixOS (desktop)	Formerly `apollo` but I replaced all the guts while the case remained the same.
`hog`	NixOS (headless)	I used to have `pig`, now I have `hog`.
`minotaur`	MacOS (M1)	Formerly `mgert-worktop`. This is the moving laptop.
`coucher`	MacOS (Intel)	Formerly `worktop`. I use it on the couch.