Installing Nixos and Home manager on a Dell Xps 15 and Macbook air
Switching to Nixos and Home Manager from another linux distro isnt too hard but there are some things you need to be aware of which ill try to cover in this video
Nixos works much better on my dell xps15 than ubuntu 22.04 and the nvidia drivers, nvenc and hardware accleration for mpv all work perfectly
Heres a list of the nixos and home manager features and issues
gnome exclude packages you dont want
customize gnome using dconf settings that you would normally change using dconf, gsettings ot gnome tweaks manually
set up nvidia proprietary drivers and nvenc encoding for obs and hardware acceleration for mpv
adding ssh keys to the gnome keyring
Enable Widevine for drm playback in web browser
mpv with mpris script support
set up firefox with extension preinstalled and all the options configured using user.js and css stylesheets
changing the bash shebang in your bash scripts so they work on nixos
gtk settings like enabling dark themes
setting up the zsh shell with autocompletion and syntax highlighting
installing and configuring doas so we can run doas nixos-rebuild switch without a password
when you run the nixos gui installer the hardware-configuration.nix use uuid for the the disk paths, you can change it to use lables instead
using the gnome disk application you can add labels to disc partitions and then change the settings in hardware-configuration.nix to use lables
if home manager doesnt buid because of a depency error for building the home manager man pages you can add the following code to your home.nix file
manual.manpages.enable = false;
if home-manager fails with an error about not being able to stop the tracker-extract-3.service
which is used by gnome search you can disable gnome search by running the following command
systemctl --user mask tracker-extract-3.service
reboot and then run
home-manager switch
and you shouldnt get the error anymore
and then try installing home manager again and it should work
dell xps15 - nixos root
https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n/nix...
macbook air 2011 - nixos root
https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n/nix...
nixos home manager dotfiles
https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n/nix...
nixos
https://nixos.org
nixos manual
https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable...
home-manager
https://github.com/nix-community/home...
home-manager install
https://nix-community.github.io/home-...
