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This is a bit of a primer on the nix stuff. I'm sure there's a lot here that's wrong but we can learn as we go!

  • [] Configure user profile
  • [] Background image
    • copy across
  • Copilot
  • [] Power & hibernation
  • [] Btrfs snapshots (& test)
  • More Nixvim:
    • Solidity setup
      • basic LSP
      • GD
      • rn
      • GD to imports (might depend on project)
    • Split buffers and use tabs
    • navigate between windows
    • [] session that actually works
  • Configure VS Code & extensions if needed
  • Turn off cmp for markdown as it's annoying
  • Hook up to external display
  • Have a shell that uses vim motions better
    • zsh - need to set fg
    • tmux
      • [] Nicer presets for window splits
  • ssh
    • Good local ssh setup
    • Prevent standby
    • [] change hostnames to make it a bit easier

Ultimate workflow

Ricing

Once the workflow is sorted with gnome for things like tailscale and tmux, we can explore using hyprland and enable vim motions across the whole VM.

BASICS

You have a copy of the nix files in 2 places:

/etc/nixos ~/.nix/ we keep stuff here to keep it out of root stuff

You can run using the nix command:

sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake ~/.nix#default

(which I have aliased to nixup)

don't use home-manager as we are seeing this as a complete system.

On home manager you have:

  • pkgs (these are system packages you can install in home.nix)
  • Home manager packages (these have home-manager config settings)

Example: trash-cli you need to do at the top of home.nix

Gnome

Gnome extensions need a few things

  1. Install the extension as a package in home.nix
  2. Add the extension UUID to enable it
  3. Config the extension by exporting dconf - someone in github has a tool to convert to home manager
  4. Log back in if you need to activate a new extension as we can't reload the shell in wayland - TBC about X

Flakes and Nixvim

Not super clear from the docs but nixvim needs to be installed as a flake to be accessible by home manager, then you can configure it

foundry

Forge is extremely tricky as:

  • It aint a nixpkg
  • It's hard to install due to some issues with solc binaries

There's a flake that takes care of the forge installation that's been added to flake.nix

Post install steps

On a fresh profile, there are some manual steps you'll need to take:

  • [] Setup Hardware config for the specific machine
    • [] There are sample config files in the Hardware directory
    • [] You need to add the /etc/machine_id to flake.nix to dynamically switch
  • [] Sync Brave profiles -> easiest to do this manually and takes a few minutes
  • [] Authorize password managers and logins
  • [] Login to Google accounts where relevant
  • [] Login to copilot using :Copilot
  • [] Install npm globals (TODO: fix see below)
  • [] Set ssh config
  • [] Setup and backgrounds or user icons

NPM Globals

Atm we have an issue that NPM globals not available as packages can't easily be added. We fix this by allowing globals to be installed in /home and changing the npm path.

There's a startup script that runs but if you enable it, it will run on boot every time - this adds ~5mins to boot. We can conditionally run it but some issues with that. For now you can just run the command as it's 1 package but as this grows we will need a proper solution.

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